OpenSSH snaps have sftp libedit (command line history/editing) support

[Darren Tucker]

Hi All.
	For a couple of weeks, the Portable snapshots have contained optional 
support for NetBSD's libedit in the sftp client, thanks to djm's work in 
OpenBSD.  It's enabled with: ./configure --with-libedit.

	If enabled, sftp gains command history, recall and line editing (and 
probably other features too, I haven't looked into libedit's 
capabilities much).  If not enabled, sftp behaves the same as before.

	Some platforms have libedit available natively, such as NetBSD 
(obviously), Debian (libedit2 and libedit-dev) or Mandrake (libedit0). 
There are some URLs for ports of libedit to other platforms listed in 
OpenSSH's INSTALL (it works fine on all of the platforms I've tried it 
on, although some needed GNU awk to build it).

	Have fun, folks.

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