a couple of things I dislike about BSD

Sascha Wildner saw at online.de
Mon Jul 23 01:49:36 PDT 2012


On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 02:39:24 +0200, Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.optus.nu>  
wrote:

> 1. When I run bc, I frequently edit the previous line and make a change:
> 15/56
> .26785714285714285714
> a(15/56)
> .26171350240120506395
> a(15/56)*45/a(1)
> 14.99507912917598589467
> In Linux, I hit uparrow and edit the line. In DFBSD, I have to type the  
> whole
> line again. This is, I'm sure, a license issue; the readline library in  
> DFly
> is GNU readline. The bugs section says "Itâ??s too big and too slow," so  
> why
> not write a BSD version that's smaller and faster?
> (The calculation relates to the upper slope of my future house's roof.)

Please try: http://87.78.98.243/tmp/bc_libedit.diff

Sascha





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