SUMMARY: tcsh and cmdtool

From: Lenny Turetsky (lturetsk@aida.econ.yale.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 11 1994 - 05:05:46 CDT


First off, thanks to the following folks:

Paul Southworth <pauls@CIC.Net>
Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
Nino Margetic <nino@well.ox.ac.uk>
per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
blymn@awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
Torsten Metzner <tom@uni-paderborn.de>
bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de (Jochen Bern)
"Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc@usb.ve>
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@bingy.acs.uci.edu>

The general consensis: yep, there's a conflict between tcsh and cmdtool.
They both try to do their own command-line editing, and end up stepping
on each other's toes.

I also discovered that this is mentioned in the README file that comes
with the tcsh sources.

Some recommended making xterm the only supported terminal emulator, but
I'm not sure I could pull support for both csh and cmdtool
simultaneously, so I guess I'm stuck for the time being. Worse things
have happened. ;->

LT

PS A few people cautioned me against removing csh and sh from the system.
        I never even considered doing such a thing. I just wouldn't be
        supporting them (sh isn't supported at the moment).

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