thelab# du -sk libedit
402 libedit
thelab# ls
Makefile el.h map.c refresh.h tokenizer.c
TEST emacs.c map.h search.c tokenizer.h
chared.c hist.c parse.c search.h tty.c
chared.h hist.h parse.h sig.c tty.h
common.c history.c prompt.c sig.h vi.c
editline.3 key.c prompt.h sys.h
editrc.5 key.h read.c term.c
el.c makelist refresh.c term.h
its tiny ...
we'd be adding a whole 79k to the 6meg distribution:
> ls -lt /tmp/libedit.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 scrappy wheel 79025 Dec 29 20:38 /tmp/libedit.tar.gz
and providing all the functionality that ppl who don't have libreadline
already installed don't get ...
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > Actually, IMHO, the pro to moving to libedit is that we could include it
> > as part of the distribution and make history a *standard* feature
>
> How big is libedit? If it's tiny, that might be a good argument ...
> but I don't want to see us bulking up our distro with something that
> people could and should get directly from its source.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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