input editing (was: Re: Strangeness in shell)

[Snoopy]

In article <5404 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
|In article <10639 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|> -In article <5275 at ficc.uu.net>, peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
|> -> The right place for ksh -type command line editing is in the terminal
|> -> driver or xterm!
|
|> Some of us think the right place is in the terminal!
|
|That's the moral equivalent of the terminal driver.

With one large difference in that if you put it in the terminal you need
a genius terminal, but if you put it in the driver it works with all your
terminals, including that adm3a over in the corner.  And if you put it in
the terminal you also need the ability to program the terminal (or terminal
emulator).  And sometimes you don't have the tools for programming the
beast.

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