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This kind of thing is why I routinely "unset editmode" or the equivalent in any shell I use as soon as I figure out how, and stick to csh command history with all it's !#:1s/foo/bar crap. Because that crap might be crap but it's always the same crap. Has anyone done a pty driver or screen-alike front end that just does some kind of sane input history independently of whichever random readline-or-shell-history crap the application might have linked into it? Having things like readline as a library instead of something in the terminal driver has been hateful since, oh, I left Berkeley where they had been systematically improving the command line editing and found myself back in raw Version 7 and System V land... and then when I got back to BSD I found that for some utterly incomprehensible reason they had ripped out all the smarts. I mean, it was great. You could have ^H AND ^? as backspace, and ^Y as well if you were on a Datamedia 1520, and ^W actually WORKED instead of sometimed acting like ^U for no apparent reason, and you could ^T to get load average and term status, and ^O to flush output when you'd done something dumb like cat /etc/termcap... (and that's NOT something you can get readline to do for you) and it's all lost... HATE!There's stuff above here
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