Re: libedit broke in head

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)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