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Port details on branch 2023Q4
libedit Command line editor library
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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:
  • 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 = 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
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:quarterly3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,13.1.20221030,13.1.20250104,13.1.20251016_1,1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,13.1.20221030,13.1.20250104,13.1.20260512,13.1.20221030,1-3.1.20221030,1
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:latest3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1n/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:latest3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1n/a-n/an/a--
This port has no dependencies.
This port is required by:
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  1. devel/libclc
  2. math/cvc5

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  3. comms/wsjtx
  4. databases/firebird30-client
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  8. databases/mariadb123-client
  9. databases/mariadb123-server
  10. databases/mysql80-client
  11. databases/mysql80-server
  12. databases/mysql84-client
  13. databases/mysql84-server
  14. databases/mysql97-client
  15. databases/mysql97-server
  16. databases/sqlcipher
  17. databases/sqlite3
  18. databases/sqlrelay
  19. devel/eclipse-titan
  20. devel/elf
  21. devel/gcli
  22. devel/libreadline-java
  23. devel/llvm-devel
  24. devel/llvm12
  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/p5-Term-EditLine
  36. devel/php82-readline
  37. devel/php83-readline
  38. devel/php84-readline
  39. devel/php85-readline
  40. devel/php86-readline
  41. devel/pructl
  42. devel/rubygem-readline-ext
  43. devel/rudiments
  44. devel/zapcc
  45. dns/bind-tools
  46. dns/bind9-devel
  47. dns/bind920
  48. dns/dnsdist
  49. dns/knot-resolver
  50. dns/knot3
  51. emulators/mgba
  52. emulators/open-simh
  53. finance/ledger
  54. ftp/tnftp
  55. games/open-adventure
  56. japanese/uim-anthy-unicode
  57. lang/julia
  58. lang/lua51
  59. lang/lua52
  60. lang/lua53
  61. lang/lua54
  62. lang/lua55
  63. lang/nll
  64. lang/swift510
  65. lang/swift6
  66. lang/swipl
  67. math/gh-bc
  68. math/gnubc
  69. math/ised
  70. multimedia/cx88
  71. multimedia/tsduck
  72. net/asterisk20
  73. net/asterisk22
  74. net/axa
  75. net/chrony
  76. net/chrony-lite
  77. net/freeswitch
  78. net/honeyd
  79. net/ntp
  80. net-mgmt/icinga2
  81. net-mgmt/netxms
  82. security/kc
  83. security/openssh-portable
  84. sysutils/hexpeek
  85. sysutils/xorriso
  86. textproc/groonga
  87. textproc/link-grammar
  88. textproc/ucto
  89. textproc/uim
  90. textproc/uim-gtk2
  91. textproc/uim-gtk3
  92. textproc/uim-m17nlib
  93. textproc/uim-qt5
  94. textproc/uim-qt6
  95. www/varnish7
  96. www/vinyl09
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  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*
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  12. databases/mariadb105-client*
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  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/f18*
  40. devel/flang*
  41. devel/flang-clang*
  42. devel/llvm-cheri128*
  43. devel/llvm10*
  44. devel/llvm11*
  45. devel/llvm35*
  46. devel/llvm36*
  47. devel/llvm37*
  48. devel/llvm38*
  49. devel/llvm39*
  50. devel/llvm40*
  51. devel/llvm50*
  52. devel/llvm60*
  53. devel/llvm70*
  54. devel/llvm80*
  55. devel/llvm90*
  56. devel/php80-readline*
  57. devel/php81-readline*
  58. dns/bind910*
  59. dns/bind911*
  60. dns/bind912*
  61. dns/bind913*
  62. dns/bind914*
  63. dns/bind916*
  64. dns/bind918*
  65. dns/bind99*
  66. dns/knot2*
  67. dns/knot3-lib*
  68. dns/samba-nsupdate*
  69. japanese/uim-anthy*
  70. lang/J*
  71. lang/clang34*
  72. lang/clang35*
  73. lang/clang36*
  74. lang/onyx*
  75. lang/pure*
  76. lang/rubinius*
  77. lang/ruby20*
  78. lang/ruby21*
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  84. lang/ruby27*
  85. lang/ruby30*
  86. lang/ruby31*
  87. lang/ruby32*
  88. lang/swi-pl*
  89. lang/swift*
  90. math/sage*
  91. net/asterisk13*
  92. net/asterisk15*
  93. net/asterisk16*
  94. net/asterisk18*
  95. net/freebsd-tftp*
  96. net/ntp-devel*
  97. net/ntp-rc*
  98. security/ike*
  99. security/kc24*
  100. security/openssh-portable-devel*
  101. textproc/uim-gtk*
  102. textproc/uim-kde4*
  103. textproc/uim-qt4*
  104. textproc/zorba*
  105. www/varnish4*
  106. www/varnish5*
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