[Toybox] Editors and such.

[David Seikel]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:48:36 +0200 Jens Staal <staal1978 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> torsdagen den 21 juni 2012 15.00.07 skrev  David Seikel:
> > I was pretty much coming to the conclusion that I would have to
> > write something that smells like readline.  Sounds like you agree.
> > 
> > I'm half tempted to implement tabbed boxes as well, but that would
> > be low priority
> 
> To save you the trouble, linenoise
> (https://github.com/antirez/linenoise) is an alternative to GNU and
> BSD readline/libedit and significantly lighter. It is not a drop-in
> replacement and not a traditional stand alone library but rather a .c
> and a .h file that can be integrated in projects that want line
> editing. Apparently Android uses it...
> 
> For the curses stuff discussed earlier, termbox looks interesting
> although also not a drop-in replacement.

I'll look at them both.  Not being drop in replacements is fine, since
we are not currently using either readline or curses.

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