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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:00:19 +0200
From:      Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at>
To:        Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Further sh(1) plans
Message-ID:  <20100620090019.GA1731@mole.fafoe.narf.at>
In-Reply-To: <20100619113126.GB83874@stack.nl>
References:  <20100619113126.GB83874@stack.nl>

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On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 01:31:26PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> 
> For embedded systems, it may be best to disable libedit entirely in the
> end product (we don't currently have a knob for this). If you need to
> log in to such a system, the additions will likely be useful, as there
> may not be any other shell on the system. The completion code is fairly
> small compared to the rest of libedit.

Maybe we could compile two sh binaries, an interactive one with all the
fancy features enabled (filename completion, history editing, mail
checking etc.) and a simple one only for scripting?
I don't know if it makes a real difference though.

Stefan



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