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		zokier 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a Shell worth noting that you get basic line editing for "free" from kernels tty subsystem even if you don't use readline.

1718627440 14 days ago [–]

Yes, but it is really basic. Is it more than backspace? Most cursor key presses are just forwarded to the program as escape sequences.

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