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Port details on branch 2026Q2
libedit Command line editor library
3.1.20251016_1,1 devel on this many watch lists=54 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:quarterly3.1.20251016_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--
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
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  6. databases/mariadb114-client
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  8. databases/mariadb118-client
  9. databases/mariadb118-server
  10. databases/mysql80-client
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  12. databases/mysql84-client
  13. databases/mysql84-server
  14. databases/mysql96-client
  15. databases/mysql96-server
  16. databases/mysql97-client
  17. databases/mysql97-server
  18. databases/sqlcipher
  19. databases/sqlite3
  20. databases/sqlrelay
  21. devel/eclipse-titan
  22. devel/elf
  23. devel/gcli
  24. devel/libreadline-java
  25. devel/llvm-devel
  26. devel/llvm12
  27. devel/llvm13
  28. devel/llvm14
  29. devel/llvm15
  30. devel/llvm16
  31. devel/llvm17
  32. devel/llvm18
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  34. devel/llvm20
  35. devel/llvm21
  36. devel/llvm22
  37. devel/p5-Term-EditLine
  38. devel/php82-readline
  39. devel/php83-readline
  40. devel/php84-readline
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  42. devel/pructl
  43. devel/rubygem-readline-ext
  44. devel/rudiments
  45. devel/zapcc
  46. dns/bind-tools
  47. dns/bind9-devel
  48. dns/bind918
  49. dns/bind920
  50. dns/dnsdist
  51. dns/knot-resolver
  52. dns/knot3
  53. emulators/mgba
  54. emulators/open-simh
  55. finance/ledger
  56. ftp/tnftp
  57. games/open-adventure
  58. japanese/uim-anthy-unicode
  59. lang/julia
  60. lang/lua51
  61. lang/lua52
  62. lang/lua53
  63. lang/lua54
  64. lang/nll
  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. 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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  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*
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  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*
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  80. lang/ruby30*
  81. lang/ruby31*
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  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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  1. math/cvc5

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