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From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Strangeness in shell
Summary: wrong place
Message-ID: <815@micropen>
Date: 31 Jul 89 15:03:58 GMT
References: <432@mccc.UUCP> <9700009@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <2277@auspex.auspex.com> <5275@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: Micropen Direct Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY
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In article <5275@ficc.uu.net>, peter@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@ee.rochester.edu

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