[lldb-dev] Losing prompt when running any python commands

[Greg Clayton]

If we are thinking of building a readline/editline/other line editor package as part of LLDB, we might take a look around and see if there aren't any other non GPLv3 line editors we would rather use. 

I have heard that zsh might have a nice line editor that could be used. I am not sure how well libedit stacks up to competing line editors.

Greg Clayton


On Jul 3, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Matthew Sorrels <sorrels.m at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at libedit was on my list, so I'll take a look at this and see what can be done.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 3 July 2013 11:49, Malea, Daniel <daniel.malea at intel.com> wrote:
> > It's a bug — I've heard reports that building against a newer libedit will fix the problem:
> >
> > http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
> >
> > However, most distributions ship with an ancient version. I'm not sure if there's any (licensing or other) restrictions that would prevent someone from checking in the updated libedit into lldb source tree…I haven't really had time to look at this problem in detail though..
> 
> For what it's worth, on FreeBSD lldb picks up the base system's
> libedit, which shares a common ancestry with NetBSD.  This problem is
> not reproducible here.
> 
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