[Proj] Geo Transfoms and calculations

Gerald I. Evenden geraldi.evenden at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 17:32:48 EST 2009


On Monday 05 January 2009 11:29:25 pm Charles Wilson wrote:
> Charles Karney wrote:
> > Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
> >> 5.  What's a poor jerk like me supposed to do?  For example, on the
	...
>
> There's a similar BSD-licensed library called editline, which is a
> "autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline library
> (libedit)." In addition to its own native el_* interface, it provides a
> mostly-complete implementation of the rl_* readline interface in
> editline/readline.h.
>
> http://thrysoee.dk/editline/
>
> It depends on lib[n]curses or libtermcap (but then, so does readline
> usually).
	...

This seems to work OK on the test file level but the documentation is pretty 
grim.  Also support seems to be spread into several, discontinuouis sites.

The need for readline or something like it is so universal it should be 
supported under a more general license.  Can you imagine using 'bash' or any 
of the other shell programs without it?  Usage applies to any command line 
program.  Just like the program I am working on: without it if you make an 
error typing in a line, you have to do the whole line over; if you made an 
error on the last command, again, type it over.  Without it you can't back up 
and make a quick fix.

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to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
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