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A small replacement for GNU readline() for UNIX
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Instead merge afd8b4de9dca8ec6afc3 from http://github.com/heimdal/heimdal.git project. This lets rl_complete() and rl_list_possib() become wrapper functions calling a set of function pointers, set using rl_set_complete_func() and rl_set_list_possib_funct(). Each wrapper has a fallback to do filename completion, which in turn can be disabled by leaving out --enable-default-complete from the configure line. This change, admittedly quite intrusive for a library, is a better implementation in many ways. For one it is much more readable, but it also enables further adoption of other editline forks as well as a simpler implementation of GNU Readline function pointers rl_completion_entry_function and rl_attempted_completion_function at a later stage. My apologies to everyone for whom this change breaks backwards compatibility. For help on converting your code, please see examples/cli.c. |
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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