editline

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 is a fraction of the size (and offers fewer features).

The editline library was created by Simmule Turner and Rich Salz back in 1992. At the time they chose to distribute the code under a "C News-like" copyright, see the file LICENSE for details.

The small size (<30k), lack of dependencies (no ncurses needed!) and the free license should make this library interesting to many embedded developers.

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.

This version of the editline library is a fork off the Minix3 sources. Other know versions, often based off of the original comp.sources.unix posting are:

• Debian libeditline
• Heimdal
• Festival speech-tools
• Steve Tell's editline patches

The most intersting patches and bug fixes from each fork have been merged here. Outstanding issues are listed in the TODO file.

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.

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Joachim Nilsson <troglobit()gmail!com>