Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I think the switches are confusing ... when you are using libedit, you
> certainly don't want readline as well, so it seems natural to disable
> it. I understand that what --without-readline really does is turn the
> line-editing capability off in general rather than just readline, which
> is confusing.
The documentation could be improved perhaps:
$ ./configure --help | grep -i edit --with-libedit-preferred prefer BSD Libedit over GNU Readline
--without-readline do not use GNU Readline / BSD Libedit line editing
$
ISTM the second line would be clearer if it read
--without-readline do not use GNU Readline nor BSD Libedit for editing
Also, we probably ought to see if we can make the libedit-preferred line
come out second.
regards, tom lane