On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:18:48PM +0200, Gregor Best wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:04:07PM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> > [...]
> > Can you elaborate on this functionality a bit that mksh provides, but
> > pdksh doesn't?
> > [...]
>
> The only thing I could think of is that mksh allows compressing
> duplicate history entries into one, such that e.g. the following
>
> [...]
>
> Other than that, I haven't yet found a difference, but then again I
> didn't use mksh that long before switching from Linux to OpenBSD.
FWIW pdksh on OpenBSD doesn't seem to be very unicode-friendly. Pressing
backspace after typing some non-ASCII char leaves the whole line of input in
some strange inconsistent state. AFAIK mksh doesn't suffer from this, though I
only used it on my phone.
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Received on Sat Apr 27 2013 - 21:46:29 CEST