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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Shell command history
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:47:22 +0100
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On 2025-04-12, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 13:26:48 +0100, Geoff Clare wrote:
>
>> It became an IEEE standard in 1992 (and ISO in 1993) for
>> POSIX-conforming shells, and has remained standard to this day. IEEE
>> chose not to include emacs mode, so effectively it is emacs mode that
>> was treated as obsolete (in 1992).
>
> Nevertheless, that is the one that is most commonly used in *nix systems 
> today.

Oh, I didn't know Emacs edit mode was that common, which other shells
support it besides GNU bash?

(Yes, we're in comp.os.linux.misc, but, following the mention of "*nix
systems", I'm talking about shells in all such systems, not just
linux-based systems.)

-- 
Nuno Silva