Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: where to do line editing?
Message-ID: <1188@ficc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 88 18:59:03 GMT
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First, how the hell does one get mail to gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA???

In article <8263@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Terminal input editing belongs where the input is being done,
> namely the terminal.

How IBM mainframe of you. How about putting file editing in the terminal
as well?

If you put the smarts in the O/S, then it benefits everyone... including
the people on dumb terminals. If you put the smarts in the program, then
you can provide selective context (like, why does ksh care about all those
ed commands????). There are valid arguments for all these things... why
not do all of them?
-- 
Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation, sugar!ficc!peter.
"You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?"
"Well, I couldn't afford another deLorean."
"But how do you ever get it up to 88 miles per hour????"