On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkow...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On 2017-11-06 00:44, Wayne Davison wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Keith Christian wrote: >>> How can I get GNU readline back as the editor for the mysql client? >> >> That is a compile-time option, so unless we can convince the mariadb >> maintainer to switch back to readline, we have to compile our own >> mysql client from the mariadb source. > > Note that Fedora's mariadb uses the system libedit as well. Could you > be more specific as to what you think is missing, particularly in > comparison to Fedora? > > Corinna, maybe it would also help if libedit were updated (the current > upstream release is 20170329)? > > -- > Yaakov >
Yaakov, Thanks, first time I've encountered "EditLine" in an application. Not familiar with it and couldn't find any tutorial info nor man pages so that I could perform simple searches as with Readline. If I can find a quick EditLine tutorial, EditLine will be easier to learn. Keith -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
