From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 14 10:17:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pinhead.parag.codegen.com (207-44-235-154.CodeGen.COM [207.44.235.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D216714C1B for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parag@pinhead.parag.codegen.com) Received: from pinhead.parag.codegen.com (parag@localhost.parag.codegen.com [127.0.0.1]) by pinhead.parag.codegen.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05631; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parag@pinhead.parag.codegen.com) To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command-line editing [was NetWare client in -current] In-Reply-To: Message from Dominic Mitchell of "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:39:34 BST." <19990914173933.B17847@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> X-Face: =O'Kj74icvU|oS*<7gS/8'\Pbpm}okVj*@UC!IgkmZQAO!W[|iBiMs*|)n*`X ]pW%m>Oz_mK^Gdazsr.Z0/JsFS1uF8gBVIoChGwOy{EK=<6g?aHE`[\S]C]T0Wm X-URL: http://www.codegen.com Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:17:35 -0700 Message-ID: <5627.937329455@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> From: Parag Patel Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:39:34 BST, Dominic Mitchell wrote: >Would that allow for the flexibility of, say zsh's programmable >completion? And then combined with my right hand side prompt? > >It gets complicated very quickly. Oh I agree - but I still think it should only need to be in one place rather than in a library or in each individual app. I should be able to plug-in my command-line-editing of choice (I may want to launch vi). Wouldn't you like to see your custom zsh-style bindings and prompts inside gdb, for instance? How about ftp? pgsql? -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message