Hugs no longer is using readline: Main> :e Main> ^[[A^[[A^[[A Hugs becomes very very less usable without it!
This is strange, readline is seen in configure, but hugs is not linked against it... I will investigate.
So I found the problem: In this release I compile with the --enable-char-encoding=utf8 configure option, but this excludes the use of readline.
I made a new release with --enable-char-encoding=locale which DOES have readline.
You should always follow the locale. People using UTF-8 (most of FC5 users, say) will have their LANG variable correctly set. When will you make a new release? I don't know what the release schedule is for Extras for since this turned out to be a bad regression, maybe it's justified to do a new one soonish ;-)