Strangeness in shell

[Peter da Silva]

In article <815 at micropen>, dave at micropen (David F. Carlson) 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!

> The *wrong* place for command line editing is in the terminal driver.

> Kernel is for what is difficult or impossible to do in user space.  Keep it
> clean and small.

Who said anything about the kernel? I said "in the terminal driver or
xterm". There's no real reason for the terminal driver to live entirely
in kernel space, other than historical.
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