Input Line Editing

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <11966 at ncoast.UUCP> allbery at ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>Uh, Jim, given that we're talking about retrofitting smart line editing into
>existing programs, what's easier than replacing libc.a(gets.o)?

No useful program that I am aware of uses gets(), for one thing.
You would basically need to provide a slew of input routines, and
you'd need to kludge up stuff to make sure that this "smart editing"
was applied only to the appropriate data.

The whole approach is wrong.