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`make linux` or `make macosx` builds Lua with readline support.  

However, `io.read()` does not have readline support.  I can see why: the file 
associated with `io.stdin` might not be one for which editing makes sense.

I dream of this:

file:read('*e'): reads the next line skipping the end of line, 
  returning nil on end of file, applying editing.

Problem is, I'm not a patch virtuoso.

Dirk