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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ksh history editing
Message-ID: <10193@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 09:21:24 GMT
References: <2599@usceast.UUCP> <2601@usceast.UUCP> <4095@mtgzz.UUCP> <2199@quacky.mips.COM> <4108@mtgzz.UUCP> <10012@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <10012@tekecs.TEK.COM> andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes:
>
>	"What's beautiful is that you can use it with the command set
>	of your favorite editor, whether vi or emacs; there is no need
>	to learn another set of editing commands just for the shell."
>
>Not strictly true; my favorite editor is neither vi nor emacs, so to
>learn the ksh history would require me to "learn another set of editing
>commands just for the shell."  I haven't vigorously pursued switching
>to ksh, in part for this reason.


Unfortunately, implementing ed as a command line editor for use
in the ksh was seen as pretty redundant to the c-shell.

:-)

-MikeP