[Freeciv-Dev] GNU readline - input, please.

[Andrew Donkin <ard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm thinking of adding libreadline calls to the server.  Three questions:

1: Has anyone else started this?  Someone mentioned they were thinking of
   it but lacked the time.

2: Should the default be to *not* use readline?  Some people hate change,
   though it should be possible to make no visible changes (I'll even try
   to preserve the current odd ^D behaviour, if you wish it).  Of course
   compilation will process as usual if libreadline is not available.

3: A toughie.  Can anyone give advice on which systems require termcap
   and/or [n]curses with readline?

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Andrew Donkin                                           Technical Support
School of Computing and Maths, Waikato University, Hamilton,  New Zealand