where to do line editing?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <3827 at sequent.UUCP> davest at crg2.UUCP (David C. Stewart) writes:
-In article <8263 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
->Terminal input editing belongs where the input is being done,
->namely the terminal.
-	I was talking with a coworker once who described how badly this
-was implemented in VMS.

VMS is not a terminal, but in any case the implementation you cited was
certainly deficient, whether or not it had been done in a terminal.
That doesn't mean that it's a bad idea if properly done.