Editline Library (libedit) - Port of NetBSD Command Line Editor Library

This is an autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline library (libedit). This Berkeley-style licensed command line editor library provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to those found in GNU Readline.

Download

libedit-20090923-3.0.tar.gz

The libedit source code tarball. Install by issuing 'configure && make install'.

Ports

The package is reported to having been successfully tested on:

i686-pc-linux-gnu
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
sparc-sun-solaris2.6
sparc-sun-solaris2.8
sparc-sun-solaris2.9
i386-pc-solaris2.10
powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.0.0
powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0
powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0
powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0
powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0
i686-apple-darwin8.8.1
i686-apple-darwin9.4.0
i386-unknown-freebsd4.11
amd64-unknown-freebsd6.0
i686-pc-cygwin
mips-sgi-irix6.5
hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00

Please send the output of config.guess if you can extend this list.

References

Links to other Editline references:

Examples

An Editline port of the fileman.c example from the GNU Readline documentation is distributed with this package.

Note libcurses, as well as libedit, should be linked to Editline enabled programs, e.g.

gcc -o fileman fileman.c -ledit -lcurses

A pkg-config libedit.pc file is provided, so you can write

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBEDIT, libedit)

in configure.ac of your client program to detect the existence of libedit.so and to set CFLAGS and LIBS for using libedit.

Using the pkg-config helper tool, the above fileman example looks like,

gcc -o fileman fileman.c `pkg-config --libs --cflags libedit`

Bugs

At the moment libedit does not support UTF-8 and multi-byte character sets. This thread on the netbsd-users mailing list outlines what's missing: Problems with libedit and international characters.

ChangeLog

   * See also NetBSD changelog:
	http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit

2009-09-23 Jess Thrysoee

   * all: apply Apple patches from: 
	http://opensource.apple.com/source/libedit/libedit-11/patches

2009-09-05 Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:33:0

   * all: Use predefined macro __sun to identify Solaris

   * src/el.c: Ignore comment lines in .editrc

2009-07-23 Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:32:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2009-06-10 Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:31:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2009-05-03 Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:30:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2009-04-05  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:29:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2009-01-11  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:28:0

   * all: sync with upstream source. MAJOR.MINOR version is now 3.0.
	This is due to NetBSD changing time_t and dev_t to 64 bits. It does
	not really effect this package.

   * configure.ac: Remove '--enable-debug' configure flag. The autoconf way
	to control flags is by specifying them when running configure,
	e.g. 'CFLAGS="-O0 -g" ./configure'

2008-07-12  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:27:0

   * configure.ac: Added '--enable-debug' configure flag, to produce debugging
	information.

   * examples/fileman.c: cast stat struct members, st_nlink and st_size,
	appropriately (see also 'man 2 stat'). Patch by Alex Elder. 

   * all: sync with upstream source. MINOR version is now 11.

2007-08-31  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:26:0

   * libedit.pc.in,Makefile.am,configure.ac,patches/extra_dist_list.sh:
	Added pkg-config support for libedit. Patch by Masatake YAMATO.

2007-08-13  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:25:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2007-03-02  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:24:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2006-10-22  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:23:0

   * src/shlib_version: Upstream bumped minor version from 9 to 10.

   * all: sync with upstream source. More readline functions.

2006-10-22  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:22:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2006-08-29  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:21:0

   * all: License cleanup. All 4-clause advertising BSD licenses has been
	changed to the 3-clause version by upstream.

   * src/fgetln.c: use src/tools/compat/fgetln.c instead of
	othersrc/libexec/tnftpd/libnetbsd/fgetln.c

2006-08-16  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:20:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2006-06-03  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:19:0

   * COPYING: added global license file

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2006-02-13  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:18:0

   * src/readline.c: Partial rl_getc_function support, patch by Kjeld Borch
	Egevang.

   * src/readline.c: Make write_history and read_history returncode readline
	compatible. Upstream patch.

2006-01-03  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:17:0

   * patches/cvs_export.sh: strlcat.c and strlcpy.c was moved to
	src/common/lib/libc/string in the upstream cvs repository.

   * all: sync with upstream source. 

2005-10-22  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:16:0

   * patches/*.patch, configure.ac: define SCCSID, undef LIBC_SCCS. Remove
	fourteen cosmetic patches.

   * all: sync with upstream source. 

2005-09-11  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:15:0

   * src/Makefile.am: fix typo that meant generated files were distributes,
	and make generated file targets dependent on the the 'makelist' input
	files.

   * all: sync with upstream source. This is just a manpage update

2005-08-28  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:14:0

   * src/sys.h: include config.h to avoid "redefinition of
	`u_int32_t'". Patch by Norihiko Murase.

   * src/search.c: explicitly include sys/types.h, because regex.h on
	FreeBSD needs it and does not include it itself. Patch by Norihiko Murase.

   * acinclude.m4: added EL_GETPW_R_DRAFT test and use AC_TRY_LINK instead
	of AC_TRY_COMPILE. Suggested by Norihiko Murase.

   * all: sync with upstream source. 

2005-08-16  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:13:0

   * all: sync with upstream source. 

2005-08-05  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:12:0

   * all: sync with upstream source. 

2005-07-24  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:11:0

   * histedit.h, histedit.c, readline.c, editline/readline.h: From
	upstream; added remove_history().

2005-07-07  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:10:0

   * history.c, key.c: From upstream source; Fix memory leaks found by
	valgrind.

2005-06-28  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:9:0

   * src/readline.c: getpwent_r is not POSIX, always use getpwent.
	Reported by Gerrit P. Haase.

   * src/Makefile.am: Added libtool -no-undefined. This is needed on Cygwin
	to get a shared editline library. Should not affect other platforms.
	Suggested by Gerrit P. Haase.

2005-06-15  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:8:0

   * all: sync with upstream source. 

2005-06-01  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:7:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

   * src/readline.c, src/filecomplete.c: Solaris use POSIX draft versions
	of getpwent_r, getpwnam_r and getpwuid_r which return 'struct passwd *'.
	Define HAVE_GETPW_R_POSIX if these functions are (non draft) POSIX
	compatible. Patch by Julien Torrès.

2005-05-28  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:6:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2005-03-11  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:5:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

2004-12-07  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:4:0

   * src/readline.c: d_namlen (in struct dirent) is not portable, always
	use strlen. Patch by Scott Rankin.

2004-11-27  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:3:0

   * src/history.c: bug #26785 fixed upstream, removed local patch.

2004-11-06  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:2:0

   * all: sync with upstream source.

   * doc/Makefile.am: If mdoc2man fails, remove empty file. Patch by 
	Darren Tucker.

2004-10-14  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:1:0

   * doc/Makefile.am: 'make install' twice fails. Remove old links before
	trying to link the man pages. Patch by Rick Richardson.

2004-09-28  Jess Thrysoee

   * version-info: 0:0:0

   * acinclude.m4 configure.ac src/Makefile.am: Adhere to
	LibTools library interface versions recommendation.
	http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#SEC32

   * doc/Makefile.am: name all manpage links as el_* (e.g. el_history.3)
	to avoid conflicts.

2004-09-08  Jess Thrysoee

   * all: Initial package.