From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 19:21:20 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30904070731v7365aea2o7753be79bbaab8ea@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10904070809v2c536289vfa8485aabef7f2f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <1239082320.2778.20.camel@katy-laptop> <140e7ec30904070053p20e60905y19a031837edc1931@mail.gmail.com> <3AB58E51F3A5C561C4B065E3@192.168.1.2> <140e7ec30904070731v7365aea2o7753be79bbaab8ea@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] a bit OT, programming style question Topicbox-Message-UUID: d4fe2232-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I see. But seriously, readline does handle bindings and line editing for bash. Except it's a function instead of a program and you think it's a bad idea. --On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:31 PM +0800 sqweek wrote: > 2009/4/7 Eris Discordia : >>>> Keyboard >>>> bindings for example; why couldn't they be handled by a program that >>>> just does keyboard bindings + line editing, and writes finalized lines >>>> to the shell. >> >> Like... readline(3)? > > No. > -sqweek > --On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:09 AM -0700 ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Eris Discordia > wrote: > >> >> Like... readline(3)? > > one hopes not. > > ron >