[Gllug] Which laptop?

Richard Clamp richardc at unixbeard.net
Thu Aug 30 15:25:17 UTC 2001


On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:27:35PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> Ctrl-R for reverse i-search is a godsend, too - and in general
> learning readline functions, using 'em in all programs that are linked
> with readline,

*cough* They're emacs keybindings, readline just emulates it

>                and writing your own programs with readline is no bad idea.

*cough* Only if you really wanted to give away all your code under the
GPL.  readline, though being a library, is released under the GPL, not
the LGPL.  This is possibly why it's not used as widely as it
otherwise would be.


And with two simple lines, two of the old favourite flamefests can
again begin.  Please don't though, I'm just picking at nits..

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Richard Clamp <richardc at unixbeard.net>

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