From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Subject: [TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh?
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:47:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1606281543040.7397@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160627112732.GA8110@autechre4>
Sven Mascheck <mascheck at in-ulm.de> wrote:
>
> I've always been intrigued by the fact that traditional Bourne shell and
> Almquist shell haven't implemented history or command line editing.
The Almquist shell had history support added for (I think) 4.4BSD
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/bin/sh/histedit.c?view=log
It's a required feature for POSIX sh, though I don't know how far back
that requirement goes...
Tony.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-28 14:47 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
2016-06-28 14:47 ` Tony Finch [this message]
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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