On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 22:34:34 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz> wrote:

 > What's the main reason why we have not picked GNU readline ?
 > Because readline is GNU ?

GPL is one of the reasons... the other is that we have libedit, which
provides equivalent functionality.

It might be cool to write a readline compatibility front-end to libedit..

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