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troglobit
editline
C2017–2024
troglobit / editline

editline

A small replacement for GNU readline() for UNIX

4Distinct people
4Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
411GitHub stars
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What it is

A small replacement for GNU readline() for UNIX

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I like this title so much I am finally going to give this shell a try. One thing I notice right away is readline. Could editline also be an option. (There's two "editlines",…

1vuio0pswjnm7 used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-11-10 20:54:46 UTC to 2024-05-14 00:49:25 UTC.

012017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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1vuio0pswjnm7·Jul 21, 2021Recommendation phrase
I like this title so much I am finally going to give this shell a try. One thing I notice right away is readline. Could editline also be an option. (There's two "editlines", the NetBSD one and an older one at https://github.com/troglobit/editline) Next thing I notice is the use of ANSI codes by default. Could that be a compile-time option or do we have to edit the source to remove it. TBH I think the graphical web browser is the current generation's Multics. Something that is overly complex, corporatised, and capable of being replaced by something simpler. I am not steeped in Kubernetes or its reason for being but it sounds like it is filling a void of shell know-how amongst its audience. Or perhaps it is addressing a common dislike of the shell by some group of developers. I am not a developer and I love the shell. It is one thing
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that generally does not change much from year to year. I can safely create things with it (same way people have made build systems with it) that last forever. These things just keep running from one decade to the next no matter what the current "trends" are. Usually smaller and faster, too.
In Kubernetes is our generation's Multics

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