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  r74970 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-09-20 16:18:15 +0200 (Sun, 20 Sep 2009) | 7 lines

  Issue 6877: this patch makes it possible to link the readline extension
  to the libedit emulation of the readline API on OSX 10.5 or later.

  This also adds a minimal testsuite for readline to check that the
  history manipuation functions have the same interface with both
  C libraries.
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/readline.rst b/Doc/library/readline.rst
index b59f680..ab4a099 100644
--- a/Doc/library/readline.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/readline.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ made using  this module affect the behaviour of both the interpreter's
 interactive prompt  and the prompts offered by the built-in :func:`input`
 function.
 
+..note::
+
+  On MacOS X the :mod:`readline` module can be implemented using
+  the ``libedit`` library instead of GNU readline.
+
+  The configuration file for ``libedit`` is different from that
+  of GNU readline. If you programmaticly load configuration strings
+  you can check for the text "libedit" in :const:`readline.__doc__`
+  to differentiate between GNU readline and libedit.
+
+
 The :mod:`readline` module defines the following functions:
 
 
@@ -166,7 +177,6 @@ The :mod:`readline` module defines the following functions:
 
    Append a line to the history buffer, as if it was the last line typed.
 
-
 .. seealso::
 
    Module :mod:`rlcompleter`