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commandlinefan on April 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: 916 Days of Emacs

> GNU readline

Interesting... I always assumed that emacs was around for a while before anybody generalized a "readline" library, but I guess it makes sense that readline would have come first.

slavapestov on April 13, 2023 [–]

emacs definitely came first, and readline adopted emacs bindings (it also supports vi)

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