[TUHS] A few comments on porting the Bourne shell

Douglas McIlroy douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
Sat Dec 31 23:26:56 AEST 2022


> "Originally the idea of adding command line editing to ksh was
>  rejected in the hope that line editing would move into the terminal
>  driver." [2]

> I have always wondered, what such a central terminal driver driven
> history/line-editing would have felt like.

You can get a feel for it in Rob's "sam" editor, which works that way.

Doug


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