Re: [bug-gawk] [gawk-devel] First look at gnu awk on VMS by John Malmberg

[arnold]

Hi Eli.

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:28:50 +0200
> > 
> > > I am seeing references to libintl, readline, and ncurses.
> > 
> > None of these are required for basic gawk functionality.
> > [...]
> > The readline and ncurses library are for the awk debugger (gawk -D), which
> > makes the debugger easier to use and more like GDB on Unix/Linux, but
> > again, not a show stopper (at least in my humble opinion).
>
> I beg to disagree.  I think debugging is pretty basic.

The debugger should still work, but the readline functionality that
stores and recalls previously typed lines would be absent.

The lack of readline should not affect the basic debugging functionality.

HTH,

Arnold