Strangeness in shell

[Doug Gwyn]

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:
-> Some of us think the right place is in the terminal!
-The one problem with this approach is that you really should only maintain
-a command line history when you're in canonical mode (ICANON, or COOKED).
-You don't want your vi or emacs commands messing up your buffer. ...

The terminal shouldn't know what a "command line" is.  Therefore it
shouldn't be making this distinction.  I snarf&barf text freely between
editor displays, command lines, and other text sources/sinks all the time.