POSIX bashing

[Ed Gould]

>Personally, I like emacs-style history editing.  You prefer simple
>erase-kill processing.  Isn't it better to get the choice out of the kernel,
>and let each application decide what it wants?

No, it's not better to get it out of the kernel, unless you propose
linking the *same* interface into *every* application.  I want
consistency among the tools I use.  I most certainly do not want
to remember which applications have fancy input editing built in
and which don't.

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