[TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh?
Steve Nickolas
usotsuki at buric.co
Mon Jun 27 22:47:17 AEST 2016
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Sven Mascheck wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 01:32:23PM -0500, Ronald Natalie wrote:
>> I added JOB control to the SV (and later SVR2) Bourne Shell.
>> Then they beat on me for not having command like editing in (a la TCSH),
>> so I added that.
>
> How interesting, I will try to bother you (perhaps directly) about
> in-depth informations :-)
>
>
> I've always been intrigued by the fact that traditional Bourne shell and
> Almquist shell haven't implemented history or command line editing.
There are a couple variants of the Almquist shell (an old one called
"cash", and one I think FreeBSD uses) which have readline-like history.
-uso.
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