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Re: Input line editing



>> [...the line editing stuff...]
> How would this be different than Dennis Ritchie's Stream I/O with a
> module for history management, with the management delegated via IPC
> to another process?

I don't know the dmr stuff well enough to be certain.  To the extent I
do know it, I'd say the major difference is that it fits into NetBSD's
tty subsystem instead of being a streams module.  (Oh, and it provides
more than just history management, such as line editing other than at
the end of the line and completion capabilities.)

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