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Re:Show HN: Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UT... by lobster_johnson on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @11:07AM (#11110754)
I wonder why that was necessary, since NetBSD's libedit exists in a portable form. It is (or was) the default on OS X.

http://thrysoee.dk/editline/

Edit: libedit is mentioned in the readme, and it's implied that the reason for this other library is code size.

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Re:Show HN: Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UT... by fceller on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @11:38AM (#11111042)
Another reason is Windows. Even READLINE breaks when used on Windows with UTF-8 characters.
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