Re: Backspace and delete
On Fri, Dec 12, 1997 at 04:46:07PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > > Why don't we use "export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc" in /etc/profile, instead?
> > > (Would this make patching unnecessary?)
> >
> > Because the goal is to have _both_ a system-wide inputrc _and_ a
> > user-specific one.
>
> Correct. The second reason for this is that we have a (yet implicit)
> policy that now package may depend on public environment to get reasonable
> defaults. That's mainly because not all shells do parse /etc/profile.
No, tcsh for example does not. Do the C shells fit in this policy?
hamish
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