Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:29:28 -0700 From: Jon Mini <baka@elvis.mu.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sh sh.1 Message-ID: <20020721182928.GJ31134@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020721203021.D19918-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20020721180547.A29241@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020721203021.D19918-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:43:56PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > Right. I have tried removing those things before, and nothing except them > has made a very large difference for many years. libedit doesn't seem to > be very well engineered (it seems to cause more bloat than libreadline > despite being much smaller and doing less), but the getpwnam() bloat is > much larger and harder to fix. I have long contended that the only thing keeping me from using sh as my login shell full-time is one feature that libreadline has but libedit lacks (^R -> reverse incremental history search). Is there anything keeping us from using libreadline in sh? -- Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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