13 Sep
2016
13 Sep
'16
11:16 a.m.
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
All modern shells use such an integrated history
editor....
There is considerable difference on the meaning of "modern" with respect to
this facility in recent shells, but this isn't the place for a holy war.
From what I could read in the net (I was not able to
get an old ksh source)
older ksh versions did call "vi" as external
program to edit the history.
This is why there still is the idiosyncratic "fc" command in ksh. With this
interface, you could not type ahead as you first need to call "fc" to be able
to edit a command line. Without type aead, there is no character loss with the
original AT&T streams concept.
Jörg
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