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- Submitted-by: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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- In article <1992Mar31.212031.4967@uunet.uu.net> peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
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- >What is P1003.2a doing specifying the behaviour of vi-mode command line
- >editing in the first place? Is it specifying that "the shell" be ksh?
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- Yes, to a degree. 1003.2a specifies a subset of ksh. The `base document'
- is Bolsky & Korn's book. The term `only one historical implementation' is
- used frequently. Things are specified exactly as ksh implements them.
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- Here's a sample quote:
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- ``The KornShell version was adopted to be consistent with all the other
- KornShell features in POSIX.2, such as command-line editing.''
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- Chet
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- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
- -- Arthur Schlesinger
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- Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 51
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