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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:11:08 -0700
From:      Jon Mini <baka@elvis.mu.org>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sh sh.1
Message-ID:  <20020722011108.GN31134@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020722101402.A61422@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
References:  <20020721180547.A29241@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020721203021.D19918-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020721182928.GJ31134@elvis.mu.org> <20020722101402.A61422@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:14:02AM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:29:28AM -0700, Jon Mini wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:43:56PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > Right.  I have tried removing those things before, and nothing except them
> > > has made a very large difference for many years.  libedit doesn't seem to
> > > be very well engineered (it seems to cause more bloat than libreadline
> > > despite being much smaller and doing less), but the getpwnam() bloat is
> > > much larger and harder to fix.
> > 
> > I have long contended that the only thing keeping me from using sh as my
> > login shell full-time is one feature that libreadline has but libedit
> > lacks (^R -> reverse incremental history search).
> 
> libedit actually does have this feature, but our sh(1) lacks a command
> to change the bindings. If you add this to builtins.def:

h0h0h0! I will do that then.

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Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org>
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