ksh vs csh (was Re: SVR4 /bin/sh BUG)

[Derek E. Terveer]

morgan at ogicse.ogi.edu (Clark O. Morgan) writes:

>The GNU shell, bash, supports
>both command line and history editing (ala ksh) _and_ the csh history
>recall syntax.  Since bash sources are available via FTP, you can place
>this shell on every machine you use.

Unfortunately, bash does have a few features that are in itself irritating to a
ksh user.  For example, no support for the ksh "r pattern" command to repeat a
command starting with "pattern".  The kill character is *hardcoded* to be ^U!
Why this is, i haven't the foggiest.  There are other nuances that seem rather
minor and could be easily fixed, but aren't.  I'll stick to ksh.
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