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Howard Chu hyc at symas.com
Thu Jun 17 19:19:54 EST 2010


Damien Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Peter Stuge wrote:
>
>> Howard Chu wrote:
>>> the client will use the readline library
>>
>> How about libedit? I guess readline is not so hot in OpenSSH
>> upstream.
>
> We already use libedit for sftp command editing and completion and we
> would be loathe to add a dependency on another library that does something
> similar.

That makes the choice easy then. I'll look into using libedit instead.
This page http://www.cs.utah.edu/~bigler/code/libedit.html implies that 
there's some doubt about which is the master source for libedit. Do you know 
where to get a current source that will run on Linux?

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