> 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
