Re: Interested in porting Dash to Readline

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

S M wrote in
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 |Hello.
 |
 |I think I might be able to substitute Libedit in Dash with Readline \
 |and submit a patch, but first I need to know if such a change would \
 |be accepted. I think its main advantage is that it supports file complet\
 |ion out of the box.
 |
 |Let me know what you think.

I think i have seen fly by changes of Christos Zoulas/NetBSD to
improve just that somewhen in the last ~two weeks.
Hm.  Oh, no, one was in April and the other in February ;--)

  commit 75a3596d0aae9e93695d4198f06f780ab286022d
  Author:     christos <christos@xxxxxxxxxx>
  AuthorDate: 2023-02-03 22:01:42 +0000
  Commit:     christos <christos@xxxxxxxxxx>
  CommitDate: 2023-02-03 22:01:42 +0000

      Add a entry point for the complete function for FreeBSD compatibility with sh.

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  commit 28b9ef37392aa2ab85fd1222dc56c57847741817
  Author:     christos <christos@xxxxxxxxxx>
  AuthorDate: 2023-04-24 20:02:53 +0000
  Commit:     christos <christos@xxxxxxxxxx>
  CommitDate: 2023-04-24 20:02:53 +0000

      PR/57376: Jorge Giner: readline file completion does not quote; do the same.

Quoting Dalai Lama (50 years in India jubilee) "it is all there".
FreeBSD bin/sh/histedit.c:sh_matches() as well as :sh_complete()
(all BSD licensed).

 |Thank you.
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--steffen
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