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

[Joseph Kowalski]

> From: Joseph Kowalski <Joseph.Kowalski at eng.sun.com>
..
> > 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.
..
> 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?

Or alternately, why isn't the best choice to either not ship the file
or (probably better) to ship it empty?  I fully understand the motivation
to allow an easily modifiable system wide default, but why should we
empose a style judgement on everybody?

- jek3