Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Seneca Cunningham <scunning(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?
Date: 2005-12-02 15:02:14
Message-ID: 439061F6.2020202@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
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>>I trimmed it down to:
>> --with-prefer-libedit prefer libedit over readline
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>OK, I can live with that.
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I think it's ugly. Can't we just say --prefer-libedit ?

If must be a --with-foo flag, maybe --with-libedit-preferred or
--with-libedit-first would be better.

cheers

andrew

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