Tom Lane wrote:
> So, no, you can't use this instead of readline. I'm a bit confused
> why not though, since other people claim to have working
> configurations like that. Perhaps what Apple is shipping is an
> ancient, un-featureful version of libedit? Or something unrelated
> that happens to have the same name?
NetBSD has added an explicit readline compatibility layer to its
libedit. I think that has spread around to some other BSDs, but
apparently not far enough.