Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> > Why can't we just fix the defaults in the programs themselves?
>
> See PSARC 2006/587: The POSIX shell standard _requires_ that the shell
> binary itself does not enable any flags by default - which includes any
> default editor setting. For full
Even if you edit /etc/profile to enable e.g. editing, you break POSIX on such
a system. This is why convenience changes belong into /etc/skel
J?rg
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