On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: > Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for > line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic > erase/kill line editing as it is. Then you don't have to hack every > command-line app to get line-editing.
Yeah, but how do you specify completion then? Unix went here a long time ago and backed out of it. Have a look at the paper http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/kornshell/doc/vhll.ps.gz (linked from www.kornshell.com) in particular, the history section. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesnt." -- Anon. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
