Hi Michael and David, On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 06:34:05PM +0000, Michael Elkins wrote: > It has been a very long time since I looked at readline, but the time the > problem was that readline wants control of drawing on the screen, which > conflicts with mutt's use of the curses library. readline is more for > line-oriented input than entire screen-oriented applications. > > You'd also have to rewrite the completion functions to integrate with > readline.
I see both your points and realise the issue is more complicated than I had hoped. But I would still try to take a look at it. If I can't use readline then maybe I could implement readline like features myself. In any case, this would be an interesting exercise for me since I have never written a patch for a complex C program. Since this is a one off question for now, I took the liberty to post on the users list to avoid subscribing to mutt-dev. Sorry about that. Thanks a lot, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
