On 7/7/05, Gerhard S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But shouldn't be needed. In Linux it works all out of > the box without adding magic commands.
POSIX compliance is a key feature of Solaris, I wouldn't expect SUN to change this. > In what way is making broken cursor keys work > not backward compatible? They're not broken, they just don't work like you expect. Annoying, perhaps. Broken? Hardly. > Do you expect that some old time user will get > a hearth attack when her cursor keys suddenly > start to work? I expect my default Solaris shell to be POSIX compliant. Even if it is annoying in it's default behaviour. I don't really care since changing my shell is very easy. Many *BSD distributions do the same thing, and once upon a time some Linux distributions did as well. > I cannot really think of any reason how changing > this would not be backward compatible. > Switching to a new shell might, but adding > command line editing to /bin/sh not. You can save all of us a lot of trouble by reading the POSIX specification for how a POSIX compliant shell is supposed to work here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sh.html You may not understand or agree with it, but the great thing about it is that you can change your default shell if you don't like it. You can even make your own OpenSolaris distribution where bash is the default. In the meantime, leave the rest of us in peace. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
