[TUHS] v7 source code for sh

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/20/22 4:02 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:

>> It always seemed like it would have been just the thing to implement as a
>> tty streams module, but research Unix went in a different direction.
> 
> Not really.  You want history files, I have one for each tty.  Telling
> the tty driver to write to this inode seems sort of weird.  I guess you
> could make it work, but to me, this screams libc or libhistory or
> something like that. 

History maybe, but most folks seem to want editing more, and just that
incremental improvement would have made a difference.

> I agree it shouldn't be in each app that wants
> it but isn't that what libraries are for?

That's why readline is a library, with application-specific hooks 
available, and relies on something like rlwrap if you want to use editing
and history with an unmodified application.


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