Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Input Line Editing
Message-ID: <1988Jul22.203037.9092@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <16456@brl-adm.ARPA> <9666@eddie.MIT.EDU> <9677@eddie.MIT.EDU> <1112@ficc.UUCP> <6339@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 20:30:37 GMT

In article <6339@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes:
>... We have the line editor built
>into csh.  I maintain this is the right thing to do...
> (Assuming you have the resources to hack the shell, of course.)

I trust you have put this into *all* the shells?  (Especially since the
name of the shell which is closest to being a Unix-wide standard does not
begin with "c".)

Whatever happened to layers of abstraction?