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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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  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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