Re: gnu readline / license

[Thimo N. <th...@de...>]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:30:22PM +0200, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Which leaves us with essentially two ways to proceed:
> 
> 1) use libeditline, the LGPL alternative to libreadline
> 2) extend our own readline.c considerably
> 
> I have my doubts that 2) is feasible.  So: has any of us given libeditline
> a try?  If so, please speak up with some results.  If not, someone should
> do that soon.

I've tested libeditline quite some while ago, but it wasn't really
usable then: deleting a character with backspace printed a new line,
scrolling the rest up... However, changing gnuplot to use the lib was
easy, I posted a patch back then. Maybe I'll give libeditline a try
next weekend and tell you about the new results.

Cheers
   Thimo