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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2016-07-12 12:41:15 +0300
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2016-07-12 14:34:16 +0300
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Line-editing support in gdbmtool
* configure.ac: Check if GNU Readline is available. * src/Makefile.am: Add new files. * src/input-rl.c: New file. * src/input-std.c: New file. * src/gdbmtool.c (handler_param): Move declaration to the header file. (quit_handler): Call input_done. (command_tab): Add the "history" command. (command_generator): New function. (slist_new_s, slist_new_l) (slist_insert): New functions. (main): Call input_init and input_done. * src/gdbmtool.h: New protos. * src/gram.y: Use slist_insert to construct string lists. * src/lex.l (read_input): Remove. Use input_read instead. (print_prompt_at_bol): New function. (print_prompt): Remove. (make_prompt): New function. * NEWS: Document changes. * README: Document readline support. * doc/gdbm.texi: Document line editing in gdbmtool. * doc/gdbmtool.1: Likewise.
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-GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2016-07-09
+GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2016-07-12
Copyright (C) 1990-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of file for copying conditions.
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ Instead it sets gdbm_errno to GDBM_MALLOC_ERROR and returns NULL datum.
** gdbm_needs_recovery
+* Line editing in gdbmtool
+
+The gdbmtool utility now offers the usual line-editing facilities (if
+the package has been compiled with GNU Readline.
+
Version 1.12, 2016-05-16

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