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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: where to do line editing?
Message-ID: <8298@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 2 Aug 88 06:39:05 GMT
References: <678@gtx.com> <593@blblbl.UUCP> <8263@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3827@sequent.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3827@sequent.UUCP> davest@crg2.UUCP (David C. Stewart) writes:
-In article <8263@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
->Terminal input editing belongs where the input is being done,
->namely the terminal.
-	I was talking with a coworker once who described how badly this
-was implemented in VMS.

VMS is not a terminal, but in any case the implementation you cited was
certainly deficient, whether or not it had been done in a terminal.
That doesn't mean that it's a bad idea if properly done.