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vax 7.2: tcsh lineedit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 11 19:08:50 1991

Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 19:08:40 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU

I typed an illegal construct using shell variables in tcsh, and got a
complaint after hitting return.  However, when I hit ^P to edit it, I
got back a different line:

 [multics] {/tmp}
<423  7:06pm> % echo ${foo-bar}
Variable syntax.
 [multics] {/tmp}
<424  7:06pm> % echo -${foobar}

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