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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 96 17:59:42 MET
From:      Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
To:        erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD)
Subject:   Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic?
Message-ID:  <199603131703.SAA19490@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603131458.IAA01244@jake.lodgenet.com>; from "Eric L. Hernes" at Mar 13, 96 8:58 am

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> Greg Lehey writes:
>
>>>> Seriously, Bruce (or anybody else): what kind of editing?  The main
>>>> objection I have to vi-style editing in shells is that it is so
>>>> ESC-intensive.  I suspect it's also more difficult to program, though
>>>> I don't suppose that's the real problem.  If anybody has any
>>>> alternatives to emacs-style bindings, please let me know a detailed
>>>> description of how it should work.
>
> I'm definitly in favor of emacs-bindings, even the vi lovers here
> hate the vi-mode in ksh,bash,...

Noted.  I suppose we'll find out if anybody disagrees with you :-)

>>> 4)	Abort key (^C): discard edits, new input line.
>>
>> OK, I suppose.
>
> kill (^u), even works when typing a passwd, I use this one lots.
> werase (^w), this one is pretty handy too.

I don't really want ^w, because other Emacs-like editors use this for
deleting the region.  Emacs would use Alt-D for this one; any other
suggestions?

> Oh, yea please remember that this is a kernel debugger, it's not
> supposed to be too friendly :)

Oops, in that case it won't be a good kernel debugger.

Greg



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