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On 12/22/2014 10:25 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> It can't be beyond the wit of person to make it easy to turn on when 
> it does work, and it should be possible internally to make it much 
> more convenient to use the terminal handling mechanisms than is 
> possible in a function. pws 

Right.  Should the shell even attempt to do something that it can't do 
reliably, or that is not naturally it's business?