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.

The libedit source code tarball.

Various examples are distributed with this package in the /examples directory.

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

gcc -o test test.c -ledit -lncurses

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 linking test example above looks like,

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

To build libedit with support for unicode (wide-char/UTF-8), add the --enable-widec option when running configure , ./configure --enable-widec

Always builds with unicode (wide-char/UTF-8) support now.

Links to other Editline references:

* See also NetBSD changelog: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit 2019-12-31 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:63:0 * configure.ac: Support -ltinfo as split in newer ncurses The newer versions of ncurses support building terminfo routines as a split -ltinfo library. Patch by Michał Górny 2019-12-11 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:62:0 * all: sync with upstream source 2019-10-25 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:61:0 * all: sync with upstream source 2019-03-24 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:60:0 * all: sync with upstream source 2018-12-09 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:59:0 * all: sync with upstream source 2018-05-25 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:58:0 * all: sync with upstream source 2017-05-22 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:57:0 * all: sync with upstream source * libedit.pc.in: Ncurses should not be a part of public link interface. Patch by Yegor Timoshenko 2017-03-29 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:56:0 * all: sync with upstream source 2016-09-03 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:55:0 * all: sync with upstream source 2016-06-18 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:54:0 * all: sync with upstream source * deprecate option --enable-widec. Upstream now always build with unicode (wide-char/UTF-8) support. 2015-03-25 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:53:0 * all: sync with upstream source 2014-10-30 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:52:0 * all: sync with upstream source * configura.ac: Fix posix shell portability issue. Patch by Ryo Onodera. 2014-06-20 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:51:0 * all: sync with upstream source 2014-06-18 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:50:0 * all: sync with upstream source - add weak alias patches 2014-06-18 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:49:0 * all: sync with upstream source. 2014-02-13 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:48:0 * all: sync with upstream source. * examples/fileman.c: Fix typo. Patch by Kamil Dudka. * Makefile.am, configure.ac: Add --enable-examples configure parameter. Make it possible to enable/disable building of the examples programs. Patch by James Le Cuirot. 2013-07-12 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:47:0 * all: sync with upstream source. * examples/fileman.c, examples/tc1.c: fix pedantic compiler warnings 2013-07-10 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:46:0 * configure.ac, src/el.c: ~/.editrc was never sourced on Linux. On Linux issetugid is not available. When unable to determine if the current process is tainted, we did not trust the HOME environment variable and therefore could not load ~/.editrc. Now instead use secure_getenv or a issetugid based implementation of secure_getenv. Patch by Paolo Tosco. 2013-06-11 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:45:0 * configure.ac: fix AM_CONDITIONAL regression for strlcpy, strlcat, vis, unvis checks. 2013-06-08 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:44:0 * configure.ac, src/Makefile.am: Prevent 'ranlib: has no symbols' build warnings for systems that has strlcpy, strlcat, vis, unvis. 2013-06-01 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:43:0 * all: sync with upstream source. 2012-12-13 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:42:0 * all: sync with upstream source. 2012-06-01 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:41:0 * all: sync with upstream source. 2012-05-22 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:40:0 * all: sync with upstream source. 2012-03-11 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:39:0 * all: sync with upstream source. 2011-08-02 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:38:0 * all: sync with upstream source. 2011-07-09 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:37:0 * all: sync with upstream source. 2011-02-27 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:36:0 * all: sync with upstream source. 2010-04-24 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:35:0 * all: sync with upstream source. Now with UTF-8 support. To enable this run 'configure --enable-widec'. For now an UTF-32 encoded wchar_t is required. This requirement is met on NetBSD, Solaris and OS X for any UTF-8 locale, and any system that define __STDC_ISO_10646__ (e.g. GNU libc on Linux). 2009-09-23 Jess Thrysoee * version-info: 0:34:0 * 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.