Subject: Re: bin/4167: WIBNI sh supported file/command/etc completion?
To: Jason Thorpe , Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Incorrigible punster -- do not incorrige <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/27/1997 10:21:31
Jason Thorpe sez:
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 * It already uses libedit for command history and editing.  I believe
 * those are POSIX requirements.

You have GOT to be kidding me.

We're talking a basic shell, here, and it needs to have libedit?
Something's wrong upstairs in POSIX, methinks.  The damned thing
should probably not even have job control -- that's not an in-
significant chunk of code, sizewise.

[plods away growling softly, shaking his head...]

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