Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit.

[Mats Erik Andersson]

onsdag den 16 oktober 2013 klockan 15:26 skrev Eric Blake detta:
> On 10/16/2013 02:08 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > 
> > Isn???t libedit supposed to be a clone of Readline just for the sake of
> > avoiding the GPL?
> > 
> > Why not let its maintainers fix it, if they really want it to behave
> > like a drop-in replacement?
> 
> libedit does NOT support history; as such, it is only a drop-in

This cannot be be true. How come our inetutils-ftp gives history
using add_history() when building on my GNU/kFreeBSD system where
libedit is used? Or, do you mean some persistent history file kept
in the user's home directory?

Regards,
  Mats Erik Andersson