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Life & fun · February 16, 2016

Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UTF8 and Windows (BSD)

A small self-contained alternative to readline and libedit that supports UTF-8 and Windows and is BSD licensed. - arangodb/linenoise-ng

Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UTF8 and Windows (BSD) launched on February 16, 2016 with 63 votes, #1,252 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Linenoise NG is a lightweight, self-contained library that provides command-line editing capabilities as an alternative to readline and libedit. It is designed for developers building interactive applications and supports UTF-8 characters and Windows platforms. The library is BSD licensed, making it suitable for both open source and commercial projects that need minimal dependencies for line editing functionality.

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