patch: readline support for sftp

[Ben Lindstrom]

Umm.. Minute the configure.ac stuff the patch at:

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200

is more complete.

- Ben

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I hope this is the right place to post this.
>
> I added readline support to the sftp client. It adds optional
> --with-readline parameter for configure to enable this feature. You'll
> of course need to re-run autoheader and autoconf after applying this
> patch.
>
> It's patched against 3.4p1 but should work with any recent openssh. It
> works fine for me (GNU/Linux) - feel free to test it and maybe include
> it in the main tree since I think many ppl will find this useful. The
> config test for readline is rather hacked by myself so I'm not sure if
> anything special except for readline headers, libs and termcap or curses
> are needed. If someone feels like replacing it with more generic
> readline detection, feel free.
>
> Please CC any comments to my e-mail address since I'm not on the mailing
> list. Thanks.
>
> Simon
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