From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 13 1:23:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CD514A06 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:23:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.0.1) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:23:32 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk (10.100.35.12 [10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id SNZVMND4; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:22:25 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 11QROi-000C1o-00; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:23:36 +0100 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:23:36 +0100 To: Parag Patel Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Daniel O'Connor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetWare client in -current Message-ID: <19990913092335.A35751@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> References: <24320.936987312@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <24320.936987312@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> From: Dominic Mitchell Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: > Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for > line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic > erase/kill line editing as it is. Then you don't have to hack every > command-line app to get line-editing. Yeah, but how do you specify completion then? Unix went here a long time ago and backed out of it. Have a look at the paper http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/kornshell/doc/vhll.ps.gz (linked from www.kornshell.com) in particular, the history section. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesnt." -- Anon. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message