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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <15446@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 01:11:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <1992Nov10.170423.10311@nttor.uucp> <CKD.92Nov11185012@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- > Mike> Things that bother me about the command line (I'm using Motorola
- > Mike> UNIX System V/68 Release 3.71 running a Korn shell using vi-type
- > Mike> command line editing on a VT420), in no particular order:
- >
- > Mike> 1) It is possible to backspace over the prompt.
- >
- >Get BSD tty drivers or tcsh.
-
- Or learn EMACS and use EMACS-type command-line editing. :-)
-
- If "ksh" does "vi"-style command-line editing in cooked mode, changing
- the tty driver - e.g., by getting SVR4, with a SunOS 4.x-derived
- "ldterm" that *does* properly handle the erase character, and won't let
- you backspace over the prompt - will help.
-
- If "ksh" does "vi"-style command-line editing in uncooked mode, it's a
- bug in "ksh" if it lets you backspace over the prompt.
-
- ("ksh" does EMACS-style command-line editing in uncooked mode.)
-