28 Jun
2016
28 Jun
'16
8:47 p.m.
Sven Mascheck <mascheck(a)in-ulm.de> wrote:
I've always been intrigued by the fact that traditional Bourne shell and
Almquist shell haven't implemented history or command line editing.
The Almquist shell had history support added for (I think) 4.4BSD
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/bin/sh/histedit.c?view=log
It's a required feature for POSIX sh, though I don't know how far back
that requirement goes...
Tony.
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