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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ [email protected]
