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From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.021532.20574@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 02:15:32 GMT
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Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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>Personally, I like emacs-style history editing.  You prefer simple
>erase-kill processing.  Isn't it better to get the choice out of the kernel,
>and let each application decide what it wants?

No, it's not better to get it out of the kernel, unless you propose
linking the *same* interface into *every* application.  I want
consistency among the tools I use.  I most certainly do not want
to remember which applications have fancy input editing built in
and which don't.

-- 
Ed Gould			No longer formally affiliated with,
ed@mtxinu.COM			and certainly not speaking for, mt Xinu.

"I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady.  I'll fight them as an engineer."