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From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:29:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1467062984.2318014.650144377.4FD72D52@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E4DCAA3E-77BA-43C3-806E-19657EF23E36@ronnatalie.com>

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2016, at 16:33, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> Command line editing might have been implemented in the driver as
> enhanced editing in “cooked” mode, but the history
> is a bit more context specific.

MS Windows does a kind of halfway decent job of this by having a
separate history per program, which I don't think requires any
information the terminal driver doesn't have access to (the process that
is trying to read from the terminal, and the binary running in that
process)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-27 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-26 10:14 Aharon Robbins
2016-06-26 16:30 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-06-26 18:14   ` Larry McVoy
2016-06-26 18:32     ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-26 20:43       ` John Cowan
2016-06-27  0:59         ` Larry McVoy
2016-06-27  1:11           ` John Cowan
2016-06-27 11:27       ` Sven Mascheck
2016-06-27 12:47         ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 14:58         ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-27 15:29           ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 16:22         ` John Cowan
2016-06-27 16:35           ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 20:00         ` Dave Horsfall
2016-06-27 20:33         ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 20:44           ` Clem Cole
2016-06-27 21:02           ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 21:15             ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 21:20           ` John Cowan
2016-06-27 21:28             ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 21:45               ` John Cowan
2016-06-28  6:49               ` Peter Jeremy
2016-06-28  7:51                 ` arnold
2016-06-27 21:29           ` Random832 [this message]
2016-06-28 14:47         ` Tony Finch
2016-06-26 19:41     ` Clem Cole
2016-06-27 10:31       ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-27 13:01         ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 13:15           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-06-27 15:17           ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-27 13:39         ` [TUHS] Bizarre job control, was csh Warren Toomey
2016-06-27 15:00           ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 15:13             ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-27 15:23               ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-26 20:58     ` [TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh? Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 10:03 ` Joerg Schilling

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