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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: INFO-UNIX Digest  V8#027
Message-ID: <10688@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Aug 89 21:55:16 GMT
References: <20539@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <20539@adm.BRL.MIL> RLN101%URIACC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Marshall Feldman) writes:
>Re. local command line editing
>The Korn shell allows the user to specify an editor and then uses a similar
>style to edit command lines.

Yeah, a lot of shells (including our Bourne shell) have similar support.
The original request was for a way to obtain such editing other than when
typing at the shell, e.g. for terminal input to an application program.