Input Line Editing

[Henry Spencer]

In article <6339 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tytso at athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes:
>... We have the line editor built
>into csh.  I maintain this is the right thing to do...
> (Assuming you have the resources to hack the shell, of course.)

I trust you have put this into *all* the shells?  (Especially since the
name of the shell which is closest to being a Unix-wide standard does not
begin with "c".)

Whatever happened to layers of abstraction?