mirror of
https://github.com/troglobit/editline.git
synced 2025-05-06 12:31:45 +08:00
A small replacement for GNU readline() for UNIX
0a75b182b1
This changeset adds support for: * rl_prep_terminal(), * rl_deprep_terminal(), both of which are only wrappers to rl_ttyset(). * rl_getc() and: * (*rl_getc_function), defaults to rl_getc() * (*rl_event_hook) * (*rl_prep_term_function), defaults to rl_prep_terminal() * (*rl_deprep_term_function), defaults to rl_deprep_terminal() For further details, see http://www.cs.unc.edu/~tell/dist/magic-readline.README Differences from Steve's commit include: signal safety in rl_getc(), restart read() on EINTR, and make sure to support "int meta_flag" to rl_prep_terminal() which is the GNU syntax. To that end I reused the inverse of rl_meta_chars. |
||
|---|---|---|
| debian | ||
| doc | ||
| examples | ||
| include | ||
| m4 | ||
| man | ||
| src | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| aclocal.m4 | ||
| config.guess | ||
| config.h.in | ||
| config.sub | ||
| configure | ||
| configure.ac | ||
| depcomp | ||
| install-sh | ||
| LICENSE | ||
| ltmain.sh | ||
| Make.os9 | ||
| Makefile.am | ||
| Makefile.in | ||
| missing | ||
| NEWS | ||
| README | ||
| TODO | ||
README -*-text-*- This is a line editing library. It can be linked into almost any program to provide command-line editing and history. It is call-compatible with the FSF readline library, but it is a fraction of the size (and offers fewer features). It does not use standard I/O. It is distributed under a "C News-like" copyright, see the file LICENSE for details. Configuration is made by supplying different options to the GNU configure script. In the examples/ directory you can find some small code snippets used for testing. Before finding out about the Debian version I was on the lookout for a really small replacement for the GNU readline package. Not only was libreadline large and GPL:ed (instead of LGPL:ed), it also depends on libncurses, the resulting size was a bit too much for my embedded system. I eventually stubmled upon the BSD libedit library, which was sufficient for a while, even though it too depends on libncurses. I searched my soul and went back to where I, back in 1996, started out -- Minix. And there it was, a really small readline replacement! In 2000 Jim Studt packaged libeditline for Debian[1], the exact origin of the Debian code base is unclear, see the Sid package[2] for details. There were some notable differences between that version and the upstream Minix sources, all of which have now been merged here. An explanation of the version numbering may be in order. I didn't know about the Debian version for quite some time, so I kept a different name for the package and a different versioning scheme. In June 2009, I decided to line up alongside Debian, with the intent of merging the efforts. Sorry for any confusion this might cause. Enjoy, Joachim Nilsson <troglobit()vmlinux!org> [1] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/05/msg00548.html [2] - http://packages.debian.org/sid/libeditline0