Robert Elz wrote in
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|Date:Sat, 18 Feb 2023 05:18:22 +0300
|From:Valery Ushakov
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|| I think no program should ever init editline to vi mode,
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|This is BSD, everything should default to vi mode!!!
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|If yo
[...mail(1)...editline...vi mode...]
>> ps Mouse: no, this should not be in the kernel ... asking the kernel
>> to search back and get text from something you entered 3 weeks (and
>> several reboots) ago is just unreasonable.
That's (part of) why I said "as far as ordinary applications are
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 01:56:22PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> I think that input line editing, no matter how fancy, should be
> invisible to simple applications, as invisible as erase and kill
> processing is for applications that run in cooked mode today.
> Applications that want frills, such as sh
>> I think that input line editing, no matter how fancy, should be
>> invisible to simple applications, as invisible as erase and kill
>> processing is for applications that run in cooked mode today. [...]
> Ultimately the problem is that teletypes are baked into the core
> architecture of Unix a
