Re: [exim-dev] with-readline 0.1 (fwd)

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tony Finch
CC: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] with-readline 0.1 (fwd)
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Tony Finch wrote:

> Part of the inspiration for this program was a discussion in the pub about
> Exim's patchy readline support. We could throw it away and recommend that
> users install with-readline instead, which would provide readline support
> for -bt and -bv as well as -be, and it could also be used by exim-fixdb etc.


The reason I implemented only such a very limited readline support was
that I was concerned about security. I would certainly be happy to throw
it away, and pass all the security worries on to someone else. :-)


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