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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Emacs command line editing
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.184309.14377@mccc.uucp>
Date: 16 Oct 89 18:43:09 GMT
References: <1989Oct12.211230.3356@mccc.uucp> <1989Oct14.022346.20251@rancho.uucp>
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In article <1989Oct14.022346.20251@rancho.uucp> rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) writes:
=The original version of ksh I received with my Microport 3.0e system
=did not support emacs-style editing.  I believe that it has to be
=enabled in the source at compilation time.  The replacement ksh
=executable I obtained from the Microport BBS disks does support
=emacs-style command line editing.  I've been using it since June with
=no problems.

Thanks to Rock and the many who replied by email for pointing this out.
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