From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] v7 source code for sh
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 16:19:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a14713b0-a0dc-2dcc-9e07-54349b53e34e@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220220210216.GJ3964@mcvoy.com>
On 2/20/22 4:02 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> It always seemed like it would have been just the thing to implement as a
>> tty streams module, but research Unix went in a different direction.
>
> Not really. You want history files, I have one for each tty. Telling
> the tty driver to write to this inode seems sort of weird. I guess you
> could make it work, but to me, this screams libc or libhistory or
> something like that.
History maybe, but most folks seem to want editing more, and just that
incremental improvement would have made a difference.
> I agree it shouldn't be in each app that wants
> it but isn't that what libraries are for?
That's why readline is a library, with application-specific hooks
available, and relies on something like rlwrap if you want to use editing
and history with an unmodified application.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-20 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-19 17:44 Bakul Shah
2022-02-19 18:44 ` Rob Pike
2022-02-19 19:29 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-19 22:39 ` John Cowan
2022-02-19 23:11 ` Sven Mascheck
2022-02-19 23:34 ` Rob Pike
2022-02-19 23:36 ` silas poulson
2022-02-20 20:54 ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-20 21:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-20 21:19 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2022-02-20 21:19 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2022-02-20 22:39 ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-21 1:01 ` Dan Cross
2022-02-22 4:54 ` Dan Stromberg
2022-02-22 5:39 ` Rob Pike
2022-02-22 5:54 ` George Michaelson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-02-22 3:07 Brian Walden
2022-02-22 14:28 ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-22 14:47 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-21 17:58 Norman Wilson
2022-02-21 18:10 ` Rob Pike
2022-02-20 7:24 Rudi Blom
2022-02-19 15:43 Will Senn
2022-02-19 16:03 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-19 16:07 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-19 16:43 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-19 17:24 ` Ron Natalie
2022-02-19 16:04 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-19 16:06 ` Bakul Shah
2022-02-19 16:57 ` Will Senn
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