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Port details on branch 2023Q1
libedit Command line editor library
3.1.20260512,1 devel Σ=52 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 3.1.20260512,1Version 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: 2026-06-05 17:40:31
Commit Hash: e86d34a
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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-3.1.20260512,1/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/libedit-3.1.20260512,1/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/libedit-3.1.20260512,1/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.0.0.78
  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:
  • For RUN/BUILD depends:
    • libedit>0:devel/libedit
  • For LIB depends:
    • libedit.so: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 = 1779895092 SHA256 (libedit-20260512-3.1.tar.gz) = 432d5e7ea8b0116dd39f2eca7bc11d0eed77faa6b77ea526ace89907c23ea4a0 SIZE (libedit-20260512-3.1.tar.gz) = 550471
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC): #
libedit
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:13:latest3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,13.1.20221030,13.1.20250104,13.1.20260512,1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1-3.1.20250104,13.1.20260512,1
FreeBSD:15:latest3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1n/a3.1.20250104,1n/a
FreeBSD:15:quarterly3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1n/a-n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1n/a-n/a
This port has no dependencies. #
This port is required by: #
for Build #
  1. devel/libclc
  2. math/cvc5

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  2. comms/bladerf
  3. comms/wsjtx
  4. databases/firebird30-client
  5. databases/firebird30-server
  6. databases/firebird40-client
  7. databases/firebird40-server
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  4. databases/mariadb114-client
  5. databases/mariadb114-server
  6. databases/mariadb118-client
  7. databases/mariadb118-server
  8. databases/mariadb123-client
  9. databases/mariadb123-server
  10. databases/mysql267-client
  11. databases/mysql267-server
  12. databases/mysql80-client
  13. databases/mysql80-server
  14. databases/mysql84-client
  15. databases/mysql84-server
  16. databases/mysql97-client
  17. databases/mysql97-server
  18. databases/sqlcipher
  19. databases/sqlite3
  20. databases/sqlrelay
  21. devel/elf
  22. devel/gcli
  23. devel/libreadline-java
  24. devel/llvm-devel
  25. devel/llvm13
  26. devel/llvm14
  27. devel/llvm15
  28. devel/llvm16
  29. devel/llvm17
  30. devel/llvm18
  31. devel/llvm19
  32. devel/llvm20
  33. devel/llvm21
  34. devel/llvm22
  35. devel/llvm23
  36. devel/p5-Term-EditLine
  37. devel/php82-readline
  38. devel/php83-readline
  39. devel/php84-readline
  40. devel/php85-readline
  41. devel/php86-readline
  42. devel/pructl
  43. devel/rubygem-readline-ext
  44. devel/rudiments
  45. devel/zapcc
  46. dns/bind-tools
  47. dns/bind9-devel
  48. dns/bind920
  49. dns/dnsdist
  50. dns/knot-resolver
  51. dns/knot3
  52. emulators/mgba
  53. emulators/open-simh
  54. finance/ledger
  55. ftp/tnftp
  56. games/open-adventure
  57. japanese/uim-anthy-unicode
  58. lang/julia
  59. lang/lua51
  60. lang/lua52
  61. lang/lua53
  62. lang/lua54
  63. lang/lua55
  64. lang/nll
  65. lang/swift510
  66. lang/swift6
  67. lang/swipl
  68. math/gh-bc
  69. math/gnubc
  70. math/ised
  71. multimedia/cx88
  72. multimedia/tsduck
  73. net/asterisk20
  74. net/asterisk22
  75. net/axa
  76. net/chrony
  77. net/chrony-lite
  78. net/freeswitch
  79. net/honeyd
  80. net/mosquitto
  81. net/ntp
  82. net-mgmt/icinga2
  83. net-mgmt/netxms
  84. security/kc
  85. security/openssh-portable
  86. sysutils/hexpeek
  87. sysutils/xorriso
  88. textproc/groonga
  89. textproc/ibus-uim
  90. textproc/link-grammar
  91. textproc/ucto
  92. textproc/uim
  93. textproc/uim-gtk3
  94. textproc/uim-gtk4
  95. textproc/uim-m17nlib
  96. textproc/uim-qt5
  97. textproc/uim-qt6
  98. textproc/uim-wayland
  99. www/varnish7
  100. www/vinyl09
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  1. audio/ufmcontrol-i18n*
  2. databases/cockroach*
  3. databases/firebird25-client*
  4. databases/mariadb101-client*
  5. databases/mariadb101-server*
  6. databases/mariadb102-client*
  7. databases/mariadb102-server*
  8. databases/mariadb103-client*
  9. databases/mariadb103-server*
  10. databases/mariadb104-client*
  11. databases/mariadb104-server*
  12. databases/mariadb105-client*
  13. databases/mariadb105-server*
  14. databases/mariadb106-client*
  15. databases/mariadb106-server*
  16. databases/mariadb114-connector-c*
  17. databases/mysql56-client*
  18. databases/mysql56-server*
  19. databases/mysql57-client*
  20. databases/mysql57-server*
  21. databases/mysql81-client*
  22. databases/mysql81-server*
  23. databases/mysql90-client*
  24. databases/mysql90-server*
  25. databases/mysql91-client*
  26. databases/mysql91-server*
  27. databases/mysql94-client*
  28. databases/mysql94-server*
  29. databases/mysql96-client*
  30. databases/mysql96-server*
  31. databases/mysqlwsrep56-server*
  32. databases/mysqlwsrep57-server*
  33. databases/percona-pam-for-mysql*
  34. databases/percona56-client*
  35. databases/percona57-client*
  36. databases/percona57-pam-for-mysql*
  37. databases/percona57-server*
  38. devel/ccons*
  39. devel/eclipse-titan*
  40. devel/f18*
  41. devel/flang*
  42. devel/flang-clang*
  43. devel/llvm-cheri128*
  44. devel/llvm10*
  45. devel/llvm11*
  46. devel/llvm35*
  47. devel/llvm36*
  48. devel/llvm37*
  49. devel/llvm38*
  50. devel/llvm39*
  51. devel/llvm40*
  52. devel/llvm50*
  53. devel/llvm60*
  54. devel/llvm70*
  55. devel/llvm80*
  56. devel/llvm90*
  57. devel/php80-readline*
  58. devel/php81-readline*
  59. dns/bind910*
  60. dns/bind911*
  61. dns/bind912*
  62. dns/bind913*
  63. dns/bind914*
  64. dns/bind916*
  65. dns/bind918*
  66. dns/bind99*
  67. dns/knot2*
  68. dns/knot3-lib*
  69. dns/samba-nsupdate*
  70. japanese/uim-anthy*
  71. lang/J*
  72. lang/clang34*
  73. lang/clang35*
  74. lang/clang36*
  75. lang/onyx*
  76. lang/pure*
  77. lang/rubinius*
  78. lang/ruby20*
  79. lang/ruby21*
  80. lang/ruby22*
  81. lang/ruby23*
  82. lang/ruby24*
  83. lang/ruby25*
  84. lang/ruby26*
  85. lang/ruby27*
  86. lang/ruby30*
  87. lang/ruby31*
  88. lang/ruby32*
  89. lang/swi-pl*
  90. lang/swift*
  91. math/sage*
  92. net/asterisk13*
  93. net/asterisk15*
  94. net/asterisk16*
  95. net/asterisk18*
  96. net/freebsd-tftp*
  97. net/ntp-devel*
  98. net/ntp-rc*
  99. security/ike*
  100. security/kc24*
  101. security/openssh-portable-devel*
  102. textproc/uim-gtk*
  103. textproc/uim-gtk2*
  104. textproc/uim-kde4*
  105. textproc/uim-qt4*
  106. textproc/zorba*
  107. www/varnish4*
  108. www/varnish5*
  109. www/varnish6*
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