27 Jun
2016
27 Jun
'16
4:58 p.m.
Sven Mascheck <mascheck(a)in-ulm.de> wrote:
"Originally the idea of adding command line
editing to ksh was
rejected in the hope that line editing would move into the terminal
driver. However, when it became clear that this was not likely to
happen soon, both line editing modes were integrated into ksh and
made optional so that they could be disabled on systems that provided
editing as part of the terminal interface."
I believe it's a real pity that it hasn't been implemented in terminal
drivers in general.
Or do I overlook possible disadvantages? What could be downsides,
apart from possibly inconsistent behaviour across systems?
It was in the terminal driver from VMS ;-)
In Summer 1984, I noticed that this feature worked in a similar way as my test
implementation from 1982 and then worked on an integrated implementation for
"bsh" at H. Berthold AG. The person that helped me in 1984 was Peter Teuchert.
Jörg
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