> That's quite the editorial liberty you've taken there. > I'm speaking of our Almquist derivative, not dash.
To fully quote from TLS's statement and your reply: TLS> In the direction you seem to be headed lies the true and vivid idiocy of the Debian shell, which is *larger* than our shell (depending on platform and compiler flags, etc.) yet strips out functionality every other modern shell offers, such as command line editing -- for purely doctrinaire reasons, since after all, these features were in what they started with. <TLS I> > and compiler flags, etc.) yet strips out functionality every other modern It does not strip functionality, it never implemented it. If you want a modern shell's features, use a modern shell. <I > It sounds like you've encountered bugs. Where, pray tell? Look at bin/48875 and judge yourself.
