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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: 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:quarterly3.1.20251016_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_1,13.1.20221030,13.1.20250104,13.1.20251016_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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  2. math/cvc5

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  18. databases/sqlrelay
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  45. dns/bind9-devel
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  48. dns/dnsdist
  49. dns/knot-resolver
  50. dns/knot3
  51. dns/samba-nsupdate
  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/nll
  64. lang/ruby32
  65. lang/swift510
  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. security/kc
  82. security/openssh-portable
  83. sysutils/hexpeek
  84. sysutils/xorriso
  85. textproc/groonga
  86. textproc/link-grammar
  87. textproc/ucto
  88. textproc/uim
  89. textproc/uim-gtk2
  90. textproc/uim-gtk3
  91. textproc/uim-m17nlib
  92. textproc/uim-qt5
  93. textproc/uim-qt6
  94. www/varnish7
  95. www/vinyl09
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  2. databases/cockroach*
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  5. databases/mariadb101-server*
  6. databases/mariadb102-client*
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  14. databases/mariadb114-connector-c*
  15. databases/mysql56-client*
  16. databases/mysql56-server*
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  19. databases/mysql81-client*
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  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*
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  42. devel/llvm36*
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  52. devel/php80-readline*
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  55. dns/bind911*
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  59. dns/bind916*
  60. dns/bind99*
  61. dns/knot2*
  62. dns/knot3-lib*
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  64. lang/J*
  65. lang/clang34*
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  88. net/freebsd-tftp*
  89. net/ntp-devel*
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  92. security/kc24*
  93. security/openssh-portable-devel*
  94. textproc/uim-gtk*
  95. textproc/uim-kde4*
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