27 Jun
2016
27 Jun
'16
10:33 p.m.
On Jun 27, 2016, at 6:27 AM, Sven Mascheck
<mascheck(a)in-ulm.de> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 01:32:23PM -0500, Ronald Natalie wrote:
Sure, it was a long time ago, but I’ll tell you what I remember. The one thing I do
remember is that the SV /bin/sh was
written in these horrendous macros that sort of made it look like algol or something.
When the SVR2 shell came out,
someone (not Bourne obviously) had undone all those in favor of the native C++
if/else/while blocking.
I added JOB control to the SV (and later SVR2)
Bourne Shell.
Then they beat on me for not having command like editing in (a la TCSH),
so I added that.
How interesting, I will try to bother you (perhaps directly) about
in-depth informations :-)
I've always been intrigued by the fact that traditional Bourne shell and
Almquist shell haven't implemented history or command line editing.
Command line editing might have been implemented in the driver as enhanced editing in
“cooked” mode, but the history
is a bit more context specific.