Strangeness in shell

David F. Carlson dave at micropen
Tue Aug 1 01:03:58 AEST 1989


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!
> -- 
> Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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.

-- 
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
micropen!dave at ee.rochester.edu

"The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll



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