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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: 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
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64leriscv64
FreeBSD:13:latest3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,1n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly3.1.20251016_1,13.1.20251016_1,1n/an/an/an/an/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:quarterly3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1-3.1.20250104,13.1.20260512,13.1.20230828,13.1.20230828,13.1.20230828,1-
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:quarterly3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1n/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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  4. databases/firebird30-client
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  11. databases/mysql80-server
  12. databases/mysql84-client
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  14. databases/mysql97-client
  15. databases/mysql97-server
  16. databases/sqlcipher
  17. databases/sqlite3
  18. databases/sqlrelay
  19. devel/elf
  20. devel/gcli
  21. devel/libreadline-java
  22. devel/llvm-devel
  23. devel/llvm13
  24. devel/llvm14
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  30. devel/llvm20
  31. devel/llvm21
  32. devel/llvm22
  33. devel/llvm23
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  40. devel/pructl
  41. devel/rubygem-readline-ext
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  43. devel/zapcc
  44. dns/bind-tools
  45. dns/bind9-devel
  46. dns/bind920
  47. dns/dnsdist
  48. dns/knot-resolver
  49. dns/knot3
  50. emulators/mgba
  51. emulators/open-simh
  52. finance/ledger
  53. ftp/tnftp
  54. games/open-adventure
  55. japanese/uim-anthy-unicode
  56. lang/julia
  57. lang/lua51
  58. lang/lua52
  59. lang/lua53
  60. lang/lua54
  61. lang/lua55
  62. lang/nll
  63. lang/swift510
  64. lang/swift6
  65. lang/swipl
  66. math/gh-bc
  67. math/gnubc
  68. math/ised
  69. multimedia/cx88
  70. multimedia/tsduck
  71. net/asterisk20
  72. net/asterisk22
  73. net/axa
  74. net/chrony
  75. net/chrony-lite
  76. net/freeswitch
  77. net/honeyd
  78. net/mosquitto
  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/ibus-uim
  88. textproc/link-grammar
  89. textproc/ucto
  90. textproc/uim
  91. textproc/uim-gtk3
  92. textproc/uim-gtk4
  93. textproc/uim-m17nlib
  94. textproc/uim-qt5
  95. textproc/uim-qt6
  96. textproc/uim-wayland
  97. www/varnish7
  98. 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*
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  10. databases/mariadb104-client*
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  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*
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  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*
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  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*
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