BSD Ports

devel/readline 8.3p0 OpenBSD

library to edit command lines as they are typed in

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Categories
devel

Description

The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.

The history facilities are also placed into a separate library, the History library, as part of the build process. The History library may be used without Readline in applications which desire its capabilities.

To avoid any confusion with the base readline/history library make sure you link to ereadline and ehistory. In the headers you can check for RL_READLINE_VERSION, RL_VERSION_MAJOR and RL_VERSION_MINOR to see which header you have picked up.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
OpenBSDdevel/readline8.3p0
FreeBSDdevel/readline8.3.6
NetBSDdevel/readline8.3nb1
DragonFlydevel/readline8.2.13_2
MidnightBSDdevel/readline8.2.${PATCHLEVEL}
HardenedBSDdevel/readline8.3.6
GhostBSDdevel/readline8.3.6
OPNsensedevel/readline8.3.3

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add readline

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/devel/readline && make install

Dependencies