Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?

From: "Michael Paesold" <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Chris Browne" <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?
Date: 2005-12-03 15:14:46
Message-ID: 011801c5f81c$4c920d60$0f01a8c0@zaphod
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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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