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Port details on branch 2025Q2
libedit Command line editor library
3.1.20260512,1 devel on this many watch lists=53 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: 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:latest3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,13.1.20221030,13.1.20250104,13.1.20260512,13.1.20221030,1-3.1.20221030,1
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:latest3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20260512,1n/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:latest3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20260512,1n/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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  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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  5. databases/mariadb106-server
  6. databases/mariadb114-client
  7. databases/mariadb114-server
  8. databases/mariadb118-client
  9. databases/mariadb118-server
  10. databases/mariadb123-client
  11. databases/mariadb123-server
  12. databases/mysql80-client
  13. databases/mysql80-server
  14. databases/mysql84-client
  15. databases/mysql84-server
  16. databases/mysql96-client
  17. databases/mysql96-server
  18. databases/mysql97-client
  19. databases/mysql97-server
  20. databases/sqlcipher
  21. databases/sqlite3
  22. databases/sqlrelay
  23. devel/eclipse-titan
  24. devel/elf
  25. devel/gcli
  26. devel/libreadline-java
  27. devel/llvm-devel
  28. devel/llvm12
  29. devel/llvm13
  30. devel/llvm14
  31. devel/llvm15
  32. devel/llvm16
  33. devel/llvm17
  34. devel/llvm18
  35. devel/llvm19
  36. devel/llvm20
  37. devel/llvm21
  38. devel/llvm22
  39. devel/p5-Term-EditLine
  40. devel/php82-readline
  41. devel/php83-readline
  42. devel/php84-readline
  43. devel/php85-readline
  44. devel/pructl
  45. devel/rubygem-readline-ext
  46. devel/rudiments
  47. devel/zapcc
  48. dns/bind-tools
  49. dns/bind9-devel
  50. dns/bind918
  51. dns/bind920
  52. dns/dnsdist
  53. dns/knot-resolver
  54. dns/knot3
  55. emulators/mgba
  56. emulators/open-simh
  57. finance/ledger
  58. ftp/tnftp
  59. games/open-adventure
  60. japanese/uim-anthy-unicode
  61. lang/julia
  62. lang/lua51
  63. lang/lua52
  64. lang/lua53
  65. lang/lua54
  66. lang/lua55
  67. lang/nll
  68. lang/swift510
  69. lang/swipl
  70. math/gh-bc
  71. math/gnubc
  72. math/ised
  73. multimedia/cx88
  74. multimedia/tsduck
  75. net/asterisk20
  76. net/asterisk22
  77. net/axa
  78. net/chrony
  79. net/chrony-lite
  80. net/freeswitch
  81. net/honeyd
  82. net/ntp
  83. net-mgmt/icinga2
  84. net-mgmt/netxms
  85. security/kc
  86. security/openssh-portable
  87. sysutils/hexpeek
  88. sysutils/xorriso
  89. textproc/groonga
  90. textproc/link-grammar
  91. textproc/ucto
  92. textproc/uim
  93. textproc/uim-gtk2
  94. textproc/uim-gtk3
  95. textproc/uim-m17nlib
  96. textproc/uim-qt5
  97. textproc/uim-qt6
  98. www/varnish7
  99. 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/mariadb114-connector-c*
  15. databases/mysql56-client*
  16. databases/mysql56-server*
  17. databases/mysql57-client*
  18. databases/mysql57-server*
  19. databases/mysql81-client*
  20. databases/mysql81-server*
  21. databases/mysql90-client*
  22. databases/mysql90-server*
  23. databases/mysql91-client*
  24. databases/mysql91-server*
  25. databases/mysql94-client*
  26. databases/mysql94-server*
  27. databases/mysqlwsrep56-server*
  28. databases/mysqlwsrep57-server*
  29. databases/percona-pam-for-mysql*
  30. databases/percona56-client*
  31. databases/percona57-client*
  32. databases/percona57-pam-for-mysql*
  33. databases/percona57-server*
  34. devel/ccons*
  35. devel/f18*
  36. devel/flang*
  37. devel/flang-clang*
  38. devel/llvm-cheri128*
  39. devel/llvm10*
  40. devel/llvm11*
  41. devel/llvm35*
  42. devel/llvm36*
  43. devel/llvm37*
  44. devel/llvm38*
  45. devel/llvm39*
  46. devel/llvm40*
  47. devel/llvm50*
  48. devel/llvm60*
  49. devel/llvm70*
  50. devel/llvm80*
  51. devel/llvm90*
  52. devel/php80-readline*
  53. devel/php81-readline*
  54. dns/bind910*
  55. dns/bind911*
  56. dns/bind912*
  57. dns/bind913*
  58. dns/bind914*
  59. dns/bind916*
  60. dns/bind99*
  61. dns/knot2*
  62. dns/knot3-lib*
  63. dns/samba-nsupdate*
  64. japanese/uim-anthy*
  65. lang/J*
  66. lang/clang34*
  67. lang/clang35*
  68. lang/clang36*
  69. lang/onyx*
  70. lang/pure*
  71. lang/rubinius*
  72. lang/ruby20*
  73. lang/ruby21*
  74. lang/ruby22*
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  78. lang/ruby26*
  79. lang/ruby27*
  80. lang/ruby30*
  81. lang/ruby31*
  82. lang/ruby32*
  83. lang/swi-pl*
  84. lang/swift*
  85. math/sage*
  86. net/asterisk13*
  87. net/asterisk15*
  88. net/asterisk16*
  89. net/asterisk18*
  90. net/freebsd-tftp*
  91. net/ntp-devel*
  92. net/ntp-rc*
  93. security/ike*
  94. security/kc24*
  95. security/openssh-portable-devel*
  96. textproc/uim-gtk*
  97. textproc/uim-kde4*
  98. textproc/uim-qt4*
  99. textproc/zorba*
  100. www/varnish4*
  101. www/varnish5*
  102. www/varnish6*
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USES:
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