Re: [ng-spice] readline feature


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From Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@zip.com.au>
Date Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:31:19 +0000
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Prof. Dr. Naundorf wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> has anybody an idea, how to implement the readline feature into ngspice?
> It is very annoying to type CTRL u and then to retype the whole line,  if 
>there
> is an  error in the input line of the interactive interpreter.

I have already figured out to do this but until the licensing issue
is sorted out it is not legal to distribute it. The problem that GNU's
libreadline is licensed under the GPL which is incompatible with 
the Spice license. We are currently working with UCB to get the Spice
license changed so that it is compatible with the GPL. As soon as that
happens I will grab the latest CVS version and reintegrate libreadline
support.

Cheers,
Erik
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