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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Strangeness in shell
Message-ID: <5384@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 31 Jul 89 19:46:50 GMT
References: <432@mccc.UUCP> <9700009@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <2277@auspex.auspex.com> <815@micropen>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <815@micropen>, dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
> 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!

> 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.

Who said anything about the kernel? I said "in the terminal driver or
xterm". There's no real reason for the terminal driver to live entirely
in kernel space, other than historical.
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