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Minix Editline
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[](https://travis-ci.org/troglobit/editline)
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[](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/2982)
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Introduction
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This is a small line editing library. It can be linked into almost any
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program to provide command line editing and history functions. It is
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call compatible with the FSF readline library, but at a fraction of the
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size, and as a result fewer features.
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The small size (<30k), lack of dependencies (no ncurses needed!), and
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the free license should make this library interesting to many embedded
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developers.
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Editline has several optional build-time features that can be enabled by
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by supplying different options to the GNU configure script. See the
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output from <kbd>configure --help</kbd> for details. In the `examples/`
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directory you can find some small code snippets used for testing.
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API
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*TODO*
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Example
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-------
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*TODO*
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Origin & References
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--------------------
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The editline library was created by Simmule Turner and Rich Salz back in
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in 1992. It is distributed under a "C News-like" license, similar to
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the [BSD License]. For details, see the file LICENSE.
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This version of the editline library is forked from the [Minix 3] tree.
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Other known versions, often based off of the original comp.sources.unix
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posting, are:
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* Debian [libeditline]
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* [Heimdal]
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* [Festival] speech-tools
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* [Steve Tell]'s editline patches
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The most intersting patches and bug fixes from each fork have been
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merged here. Outstanding issues are listed in the TODO file.
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An explanation of the version numbering may be in order. I didn't know
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about the Debian version for quite some time, so I kept a different name
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for the package and a different versioning scheme. In June 2009, I
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decided to line up alongside Debian, with the intent of eventually
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merging the efforts. However, despite several attempts, the Debian
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maintainer has not responded to my emails.
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[Minix 3]: http://www.minix3.org/
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[BSD License]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
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[libeditline]: http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/editline.html
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[Heimdal]: http://www.h5l.org
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[Festival]: http://festvox.org/festival/
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[Steve Tell]: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~tell/dist.html
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