In article <20021026195652.F726@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>,
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

Yes, our gdb uses libedit apparently...

christos

>true - fortunately, but libedit/readline.c contains a whole raft
>of code to to support it.
>
>/* 
> * csh-style history expansion
> */
>int
>history_expand(char *str, char **output)
>
>It is possible that gdb uses it - but it might be using its
>own copy of the routines.
>Nothing else in the main source tree seems to.
>Clearly bits of pkgsrc might...
>
>	David
>
>-- 
>David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk