From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tigger.nu.org ([61.8.19.222]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24766>; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 18:39:17 -0500 Received: by tigger.nu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4BB21280; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:00:26 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:00:26 -0500 From: Christopher Vance To: Steve Kilbane Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: rc futures Message-ID: <19991222110026.C1449@nu.org> References: <19991216124313.10637.qmail@pantransit.reptiles.org> <199912191106.LAA30430@whitecrow.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199912191106.LAA30430@whitecrow.demon.co.uk> On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 06:06:54AM -0500, Steve Kilbane wrote: : I'm not familiar with readline and its variants, having never explicitly : gone out looking for it. Does it provide anything other than history : recall and editing? If not, $history is enough to provide 99% of that : functionality via an external program. I've always compiled rc with editline - it's much smaller than readline. I do use recall and editting frequently. The only hassle I've had is that interposing editline has occasionally tripped up the trip tests, and I've had to convince myself that rc was still okay... -- Christopher Vance