On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:44:54PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Heya, we have several packages implementing line-editing > capabilities. I know at least 3 of them: "cle", "ledit", and > "rlwrap", but there might be others.
Oh yes. Hmm... cle is dead upstream, rather buggy with no progress whatsoever in a very long time; it was mainly useful before rlwrap appeared in the real world (not as C source code in /usr/share/doc/libreadline-dev/examples/, but in /usr/bin/), so I'd think we should rather remove it. > (...) they all seem to offer a common interface "NAME command" that > will run command equipped with line editing capabilities. > Some packages benefit generically from line editing capabilities > without caring about the actual tool implementing it. (...) > I hereby propose to introduce a new virtual package called > "readline-editor" [1] provided by all tools offering line editing > capabilities as a command wrapper. For the rest, yes, sure, that's good progress. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org