[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: /etc/ksh.kshrc for ksh93 [PSARC/2006/587 Timeout: 10/24/2006]

[Joseph Kowalski]

> gmacs is considered an intuitive beginner's editing mode.  It is the
> default editing mode in bash and more or less matches the common input
> mode of various GUI toolkits and desktops, including Gnome/GTK+,
> KDE/Qt, CDE/Motif, Mozilla/XULRunner/Gecko, JAVA, and Xaw/Xaw3D.

None the less, this seems like a strange choice for Solaris as there isn't
anything called "gmacs" on the system.

Uh, what "default editing mode" are you sighting for JAVA?

I think I would be more inclinded to be accepting of gmacs if it was the
common default mode for ksh on other systems.  Is it?

> Interfaces:
> 
> Interface	Stability	Description
> =========       =========	===========
> /etc/ksh.kshrc	Uncommitted 	Per-system configuration file for
> 				interactive ksh93 sessions

This seems a little strange to me.  Would Committed for the file itself
and format be more appropriate, with the default default of gmacs (or
whatever) being Uncommitted?  I think reality is that once you ship such
a file, we are not likely to be able to change its existance or format -
too many administrators will latch on to it.

- jek3