libedit is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are four alternatives to libedit for Linux, Mac, Windows and BSD. The best libedit alternative is Python Prompt Toolkit, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like libedit are GNU Readline, replxx and Linenoise.