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. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
