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Comments for GNU Readline

Very restricting library
While readline offers very good (though occasionally flawed) line editing - its macro support is lacking. Readline's many quirks, poor documentation, and inflexibility, isn't a bonus either. When using this library you should consider that you might end up spending more time working around readline's limitations than if you would have taken a couple of days to add your own input editing support. Not to mention that the library isn't installed on many system.

Readline 5.0
This was released in August 2004 - and is not a new announcement.