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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Strangeness in shell
Message-ID: <10650@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Aug 89 18:27:54 GMT
References: <432@mccc.UUCP> <9700009@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <2277@auspex.auspex.com> <10639@smoke.BRL.MIL> <5404@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5404@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
-In article <10639@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
-> Some of us think the right place is in the terminal!
-The one problem with this approach is that you really should only maintain
-a command line history when you're in canonical mode (ICANON, or COOKED).
-You don't want your vi or emacs commands messing up your buffer. ...

The terminal shouldn't know what a "command line" is.  Therefore it
shouldn't be making this distinction.  I snarf&barf text freely between
editor displays, command lines, and other text sources/sinks all the time.