INFO-UNIX Digest V8#027

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <20539 at adm.BRL.MIL> RLN101%URIACC.BITNET at mitvma.mit.edu (Marshall Feldman) writes:
>Re. local command line editing
>The Korn shell allows the user to specify an editor and then uses a similar
>style to edit command lines.

Yeah, a lot of shells (including our Bourne shell) have similar support.
The original request was for a way to obtain such editing other than when
typing at the shell, e.g. for terminal input to an application program.