Re: editline

[Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>]

On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 02:04:03AM +0000, Edward Betts wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan, 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a non-free package called hugs, which can make use of a readline
> > library. Of course I can't link it against libreadline because it is GPL
> > but I see there is something called editline which can be used instead...
> > I could not find this packaged... is anyone using this, should I search
> > for it and package it up, etc ?
> 
> yes, i recently tried to recompile ash with line editing capabilites, it
> needed a library called editline or something like that.

A line-editing-capable ash would be a nice thing to have as a Debian
package. Just one nit, how big would it be? As we use ash on the rescue
floppy, and that is pretty full already, increasing ash size in more than
a few KBs would be a no-no.

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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es