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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sort with a tab as separator
Message-ID: <3925@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 21 Aug 90 19:11:57 GMT
References: <1990Aug21.022525.3006@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Improved: it is command-line and history editing via Emacs commands that
>probably screws up some of this. I am VERY GLAD that the NeXT csh has this
>feature. It makes life much more pleasant. In fact, I wouldn't even consider a
>shell without this feature.

And *I* wouldn't consider a shell that turned tabs into spaces, even
though I like that kind of command-line and history editing.  "ksh" has
command-line and history editing via EMACS commands, and as I remember
it didn't have any such problems; the Bourne-again shell version here
also has command-line and history editing via EMACS commands, and *it*
doesn't have that problem.