tenex-style command editing in a Unix shell?

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From: Jef Poskanzer
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 17:26

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All these different shells, tcsh, ksh, bash, zsh, but do any of them
implement tenex-style command completion and prompting, the most perfect
command-line interface ever devised?  I admit it would be a little weird
trying to fit it into Unix, since the commands are so numerous and free-form,
but I can think of a couple ways to do it.
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Jef

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From: jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer)
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Subject: tenex-style command editing in a Unix shell?
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Date: 24 Apr 91 17:26:12 GMT
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