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Port details on branch 2024Q2
libedit Command line editor library
3.1.20251016_1,1 devel on this many watch lists=56 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 3.1.20251016_1,1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: osa@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2002-02-10 22:34:30
Last Update: 2025-11-25 19:14:46
Commit Hash: 505065c
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License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://thrysoee.dk/editline/
Description:
libedit provides command line editing functionality. Both emacs and vi key bindings are supported. Note that the base system also includes libedit, but this port is generally more current.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @ldconfig
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/libedit-3.1.20251016_1,1/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/libedit-3.1.20251016_1,1/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/libedit-3.1.20251016_1,1/BSD2CLAUSE
  5. include/editline/readline.h
  6. include/histedit.h
  7. lib/libedit.a
  8. lib/libedit.so
  9. lib/libedit.so.0
  10. lib/libedit.so.0.0.76
  11. libdata/pkgconfig/libedit.pc
  12. share/man/man3/editline.3.gz
  13. share/man/man3/el_deletestr.3.gz
  14. share/man/man3/el_end.3.gz
  15. share/man/man3/el_get.3.gz
  16. share/man/man3/el_getc.3.gz
  17. share/man/man3/el_gets.3.gz
  18. share/man/man3/el_history.3.gz
  19. share/man/man3/el_history_end.3.gz
  20. share/man/man3/el_history_init.3.gz
  21. share/man/man3/el_history_w.3.gz
  22. share/man/man3/el_history_wend.3.gz
  23. share/man/man3/el_history_winit.3.gz
  24. share/man/man3/el_init.3.gz
  25. share/man/man3/el_init_fd.3.gz
  26. share/man/man3/el_insertstr.3.gz
  27. share/man/man3/el_line.3.gz
  28. share/man/man3/el_parse.3.gz
  29. share/man/man3/el_push.3.gz
  30. share/man/man3/el_reset.3.gz
  31. share/man/man3/el_resize.3.gz
  32. share/man/man3/el_set.3.gz
  33. share/man/man3/el_source.3.gz
  34. share/man/man3/el_tok_end.3.gz
  35. share/man/man3/el_tok_init.3.gz
  36. share/man/man3/el_tok_line.3.gz
  37. share/man/man3/el_tok_reset.3.gz
  38. share/man/man3/el_tok_str.3.gz
  39. share/man/man3/el_tok_wend.3.gz
  40. share/man/man3/el_tok_winit.3.gz
  41. share/man/man3/el_tok_wline.3.gz
  42. share/man/man3/el_tok_wreset.3.gz
  43. share/man/man3/el_tok_wstr.3.gz
  44. share/man/man3/el_wdeletestr.3.gz
  45. share/man/man3/el_wget.3.gz
  46. share/man/man3/el_wgetc.3.gz
  47. share/man/man3/el_wgets.3.gz
  48. share/man/man3/el_winsertstr.3.gz
  49. share/man/man3/el_wline.3.gz
  50. share/man/man3/el_wparse.3.gz
  51. share/man/man3/el_wpush.3.gz
  52. share/man/man3/el_wset.3.gz
  53. share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz
  54. share/man/man7/editline.7.gz
  55. @owner
  56. @group
  57. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • libedit>0:devel/libedit
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/devel/libedit/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install devel/libedit
  • pkg install libedit
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: libedit
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1761220947 SHA256 (libedit-20251016-3.1.tar.gz) = 21362b00653bbfc1c71f71a7578da66b5b5203559d43134d2dd7719e313ce041 SIZE (libedit-20251016-3.1.tar.gz) = 549005
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
libedit
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,13.1.20191231,13.1.20250104,13.1.20251016_1,1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly3.1.20250104,13.1.20251016_1,13.1.20221030,13.1.20250104,13.1.20251016_1,1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,13.1.20221030,13.1.20250104,13.1.20251016_1,13.1.20221030,1-3.1.20221030,1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,1-3.1.20250104,13.1.20251016_1,13.1.20230828,13.1.20230828,13.1.20230828,1
FreeBSD:15:latest3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,1n/a3.1.20250104,1n/an/a3.1.20230828_1,13.1.20230828_1,1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,1n/a-n/an/a--
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  21. devel/eclipse-titan
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  60. lang/julia
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  65. lang/nll
  66. lang/ruby32
  67. lang/swift510
  68. lang/swipl
  69. math/gh-bc
  70. math/gnubc
  71. math/ised
  72. multimedia/cx88
  73. multimedia/tsduck
  74. net/asterisk20
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  78. net/chrony-lite
  79. net/freeswitch
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  81. net/ntp
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  83. security/kc
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  88. textproc/groonga
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  29. databases/percona57-server*
  30. devel/ccons*
  31. devel/f18*
  32. devel/flang*
  33. devel/flang-clang*
  34. devel/llvm-cheri128*
  35. devel/llvm10*
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  60. lang/J*
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