From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jaapna@xs4all.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 22:16:39 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun In-Reply-To: References: <201408060256.s762u7Ni007007@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> <201408060645.s766jV9p004639@freefriends.org> <20140806132257.GA23663@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <636A0831-8B9B-480B-A369-F0381ACE09BA@xs4all.nl> >> >> When did the sh shell provide intra-line editing? > > I first experienced this with the CSH but maybe there were others before. If I remember correctly traditionally there were the kill and erase (#, @) characters, later on Berkeley added thinks like ^W (rub out last word) and similar stuff. This was all handle by the terminal driver in the kernel (saved context switches). Later people started to move the edit operations to the CLI applications and libraries like "readline", the terminal driver runs in cbreak (or whatever it was called) mode. jaap -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 235 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: