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+# libedit
+
+[Libedit](https://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/) is an autotool- and libtoolized
+port of the
+[NetBSD Editline library](http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date#dirlist).
+It provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar
+to those found in
+[GNU Readline](https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html).
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-# THIS FILE IS FOR WHITELISTING RPMLINT ERRORS AND WARNINGS IN TASKOTRON
-# https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Taskotron/Tasks/dist.rpmlint#Whitelisting_errors
-
-# The dictionary is missing some technical terms
-addFilter(r'W: spelling-error .* (autotool|libtoolized|tokenization)')