libedit / readline

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sun Apr 20 10:30:33 PDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:28, Alex Kiesel wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 19:15, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > What I'd like to know is this: if libedit is meant to be a drop-in
> > replacement for readline, why doesn't it export readline()?
> 
> Is it really? Hm, readline is in the base system. Why don't you link
> against it?

editline() is intended to be a replacement for readline(), but not a
drop-in replacement; or at least that's been my understanding of it.

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electrical and computer engineering                              KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]



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