From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:42:04 -0500
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> > If you put the command history editor in the shell, then you can only
> > use it in the shell; if you use another shell from time to time, then
>
> Not if you put it in a library and link the library
> against every single program that could ever possibly
> want to read input!

Standard practice in the GNU world.  But is it _good_ practice?

I had a lot of ``fun'' getting gdb to run on Plan 9 because of this...