POSIX bashing
Ed Gould
ed at mtxinu.COM
Thu Apr 11 12:15:32 AEST 1991
>Personally, I like emacs-style history editing. You prefer simple
>erase-kill processing. Isn't it better to get the choice out of the kernel,
>and let each application decide what it wants?
No, it's not better to get it out of the kernel, unless you propose
linking the *same* interface into *every* application. I want
consistency among the tools I use. I most certainly do not want
to remember which applications have fancy input editing built in
and which don't.
--
Ed Gould No longer formally affiliated with,
ed at mtxinu.COM and certainly not speaking for, mt Xinu.
"I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady. I'll fight them as an engineer."
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