Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline? - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Michael Paesold
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?
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Msg-id 011801c5f81c$4c920d60$0f01a8c0@zaphod
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I wanted to distinguish libreadline from readline-functionality.  Why is
> it Readline?

"The GNU Readline Library" is usually referred to as "Readline", not
"libreadline". The offical name for "libedit" is really "Libedit".

See e.g.:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libedit/
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html

IMHO libreadline does not sound good.

Best Regards,
Michael Paesold



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