Re: coupla things (fwd)
John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:40:07 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, MegaZone wrote:
>
> Once upon a time Evan Champion shaped the electrons to say...
> >
> >Livingston is going to implement emacs keys they'll have to do vi too, if
> >for no other reason than to avert the impending flame war when the vi
> >users find out that the servers only do emacs keys :-) Seriously though,
> >I'm so used to using vi movement keys that I go crazy using anything else.
>
> 'emacs' keys are also the tcsh and bash keys, 2 of the most popular shells.
>
> If we do it you'd be more likely to see those.
So sez you. I'm voting for 'vi'.
Lets not forget that the popular shell ksh supports vi OR emacs.
I suspect if we do the work to implment ONE style of command editing,
we'll probably have the meachanism to implement ANY.
As much as I would like to see command line editing I don't think we're
likely to see it soon or at all.
JGT
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