Re: Bug#612625: ITP: libtecla -- a command-line editing library

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:18:15AM -0600, Scott Christley wrote:
> Description     : Tecla is a command-line editing library
> 
> The tecla library provides UNIX and LINUX programs with interactive
> command line editing facilities, similar to those of the UNIX tcsh
> shell. In addition to simple command-line editing, it supports recall
> of previously entered command lines, TAB completion of file names or
> other tokens, and in-line wild-card expansion of filenames. The
> internal functions which perform file-name completion and wild-card
> expansion are also available externally for optional use by programs.

I'm wondering, how does it relate to libreadline/libedit?  Those seem to
be the standard choices for this kind of purpose.  I assume you want to
package something else which requires libtecla?


Regards,

Michael