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+;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
+;;; Copyright © 2015 Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch>
+;;;
+;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+;;; your option) any later version.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;
+;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;; along with GNU Guix.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+(define-module (gnu packages libedit)
+  #:use-module (guix licenses)
+  #:use-module (guix packages)
+  #:use-module (guix download)
+  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses))
+
+(define-public libedit
+  (package
+    (name "libedit")
+    (version "20141030-3.1")
+    (source
+     (origin
+      (method url-fetch)
+      (uri (string-append "http://thrysoee.dk/editline"
+                          "/" name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+      (sha256
+       (base32
+        "0h2svwfcdldpbg0fy7fnkld706r2a9k9h1mm0yj7z3zvf1jy20cp"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (inputs
+     `(("ncurses" ,ncurses)))
+    (home-page "http://thrysoee.dk/editline/")
+    (synopsis "NetBSD Editline library")
+    (description
+     "This is an autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline
+library (libedit). This Berkeley-style licensed command line editor library
+provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to
+those found in GNU Readline.")
+    (license bsd-3)))
+
+;;; libedit.scm ends here