On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Ralph Corderoy ralph-at-inputplus.co.uk |s-nail| wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Martin wrote:
>> What I (and a colleague of mine) never understood:  what's the point
>> of the s-nail line-editor?
>
> Being new to the list, I've been wondering that too.  ~e and ~v are
> available.  ~h lets one cursor through the field.  And if it is wanted,
> aren't there's BSD-compatible libraries that provide GNU readline-like
> behaviour?

My recollection is that it started with people wanting file completion 
for attachments and directory name completion for changing folders.
I still think that wrapping rlwrap around the s-nail command is good 
enough and including readline code in s-nail itself isn't necessary.

Stephen Isard

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