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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Input Line Editing
Message-ID: <8291@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 1 Aug 88 01:20:08 GMT
References: <16553@brl-adm.ARPA> <11966@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <11966@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>Uh, Jim, given that we're talking about retrofitting smart line editing into
>existing programs, what's easier than replacing libc.a(gets.o)?

No useful program that I am aware of uses gets(), for one thing.
You would basically need to provide a slew of input routines, and
you'd need to kludge up stuff to make sure that this "smart editing"
was applied only to the appropriate data.

The whole approach is wrong.