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authortgoodwin <tgoodwin>1998-07-20 13:04:53 +0000
committerToby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>2015-05-16 21:23:09 +0100
commit699a957f3a6fbb86cb741cb3747fd2cfee5d58fd (patch)
treede44f614841376930c43cb6bdf1c166f0e978efa /INSTALL
parent406963661b89f38c1d978dc78b863d531bd46695 (diff)
add support for vrl
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-rw-r--r--INSTALL15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 292bfe4..bb5a644 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -39,11 +39,16 @@ descending order of usefulness.
LIBS=-L. sh ../rc-1.5b3/configure --with-editline
+ --with-vrl
+
+ This option tells rc to use the vrl package (see the README file for
+ details) to provide EMACS style command line editing and history.
+
--with-readline
This option tells rc to use the GNU readline package, which is similar
- to editline, but has many more features. The readline package is
- over 6 times the size of editline (whether you count lines of code,
+ to editline or vrl, but has many more features. The readline package
+ is over 6 times the size of editline (whether you count lines of code,
or the library itself). As for editline, you can set the environment
variable LIBS if your readline library is not installed in a standard
place.
@@ -55,9 +60,9 @@ descending order of usefulness.
Use this option if you want to build and install the programs that
support a crude history mechanism.
-You can't use `--with-editline' and `--with-readline' together, of course,
-and if you have either of those you probably don't want to bother with
-`--with-history'.
+You can't use more than one of `--with-editline', `--with-vrl', and
+`--with-readline' at the same time. If you have any of these you
+probably don't want to bother with `--with-history'.
--prefix /path