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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1991 02:23:18 -0600
From: "Paul D. Swasey" <ps3u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: Line editing -- try ile

Well, readline has to be included in each program... which means adding
it to existing software is a pain.  readline makes binaries larger
(here, at least).

ile, on the other hand, is run once in each tty and it gives line
editing to any program that eventually does read() (I like that
interface much more.  I get to do read() in my programs.  If someone
wants more line editing then the kernel provides, they can "fix" their
terminal...  I don't have to "fix" my program.)

-dave

but ile doesn't have vi bindings :(
but neither of them (although readline can), does completion on things
like $h/src/rc_scr[TAB]...