Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:44:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command-line editing [was NetWare client in -current] Message-ID: <199909142144.XAA05633@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Parag Patel wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:39:34 BST, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> >It gets complicated very quickly.
>
> Oh I agree - but I still think it should only need to be in one place
> rather than in a library or in each individual app.
It _is_ in one place if it's in a library. And personally
I think that's exatly where it belongs. Does libedit ring
a bell...?
> Wouldn't you like to see your custom zsh-style bindings and prompts
> inside gdb, for instance? How about ftp? pgsql?
That's exactly what libedit could be used for (although it
could need a few technical improvements, IMO, but the basic
concept is there).
Regards
Oliver
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