Emacs mode passes --rawCIN to APL. If I'm not mistaken, that bypasses readline. Therefore you should be able to eliminate or replace readline without consideration for emacs mode.
On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 19:39 +0200, Juergen Sauermann wrote: > Long term I will most likely replace readline because so far it has > created more problems > than it has helped. That would be a bigger issue and should also be > aligned with Elias' > emacs mode. So it would be after the next GNU APL release.
