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> On 28 Oct 2021, at 09:50, Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> "eugeny" == eugeny gladkih <john@drweb.com> writes:
> 
> eugeny> re,
> eugeny> you know, redline is viral GNU monster, many people want to
> eugeny> avoid usage of it.
> 
> Libedit (BSD license) works just fine, too, just by replacing the
> #include lines.
> 
> For the FreeBSD port I wrote a patch that loads libedit dynamically on
> demand, with RTLD_LOCAL, to avoid issues with libedit or readline
> loading a different version of libcurses than one that a script using
> lcurses might want to use. This can be found at
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/lang/lua54/files/extra-patch-libedit-dl
> 

libedit is UNIX only library and requires NCURSES or SysV CURSES. good but still viral and unportable.

-- 
Yours sincerely, Eugeny.
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