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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: 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 14:53:52
Message-ID: 200512031453.jB3Err204555@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > They are called "Readline" and "Libedit".
> >
> > I wanted to distinguish libreadline from readline-functionality.
>
> The functionality may be called "command-line editing" but I don't see
> how that relates to what actually appears in the patch.

When you use --without-readline, it really means without libreadline and
libedit. One solution would be to rename that --without-lineediting,
but that might confuse people.

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