brianjhanfox

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   by brianjhanfox 7y ago

   He slept in his office, and had ever since his house caught on fire, some years before I met him. I met him in 1984. When he moved his office to a rebuilt floor at tech square, he had a wall dividing the office into two halves. One half
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   by brianjhanfox 7y ago

   "cut buffer" is actually "kill ring" C-u only does that by default so that readline wouldn't confuse *nix users.
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   by brianjhanfox 7y ago

   Interestingly enough, neither of these libraries are as objectively as good as readline. For example, they do not implement a true kill ring. They aren't macro programmable. I find it almost amusing that the authors were too lazy to
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   by brianjhanfox 7y ago

   And I trust Gumby's memory almost to a fault :-) I had already written a version of Emacs for the Apple ][ and Apple //e called Amacs in 1983 or so. I loved Emacs and Zmacs, and wanted to build software that had that clarit
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   by brianjhanfox 7y ago

   I knew I was going to write readline, and I knew I was going to write it as a library. I wrote the vast majority of it on a weekend after I had a working shell. POSIX was mostly me telling David Korn that just because he had created a shi