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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 96 9:44:44 MET DST
From:      Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
To:        alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball)
Cc:        lehey.pad@sni.de, questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stty -echo -nl, emacs
Message-ID:  <199604030629.IAA17564@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604021607.KAA14605@compound>; from "Tony Kimball" at Apr 2, 96 10:07 am

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>    Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 10:40:00 MET DST
>    From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
>
>> I am using es, sans editline/readline.
>
>    I don't know that one.  Is it new?
>
> Extensible Shell.  A lambda-calc shell based on Plan 9's rc.
> There was a USENIX paper on it a couple of years ago.
>
>    You probably want to set erase to ^H and kill to (say) ^U here.
>
> Kinda moot under Emacs, tho.
>
>    The rest of the stty stuff looks fine.  I can't see anything that's
>    appending the ^M, so I assume it's the shell.
>
> Same as sh, csh, and no combination of flags that I have found will
> stop it.  Oh well, I can fix it in lisp.
>
>    I see the ^Ms, but I'm confused.  Above, you said 'es', now you're
>    saying 'ash'.  To the best of my knowledge, neither are standard with
>    FreeBSD, though I at least know of ash.
>
> I should rather have said 'FreeBSD sh' than 'ash'.
>
>    Do you have a particular
>    reason to want to stay with this shell?
>
> Can't hardly get away from it ;-)

Well, looking at all this, I'd say it's a port problem, not a FreeBSD
problem.  Where did you get the binaries?

Greg



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