Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!sun!kalli!kevin From: kevin%kalli@Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan (Consulting Poster Child)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: where to do line editing? Message-ID: <63481@sun.uucp> Date: 9 Aug 88 16:47:02 GMT References: <678@gtx.com> <593@blblbl.UUCP> <8263@brl-smoke.ARPA> <611@tub.UUCP> <1495@mcgp1.UUCP> <1220@ficc.UUCP> <12109@ncoast.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: kevin@sun.UUCP (Kevin Sheehan (Consulting Poster Child)) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 11 This may be SunOS specific, but I think it applies to SYSV as well - why not just pop the STREAMS modules in place, and put in your own that does the line editing?? Programs that need cbreak and raw (and by definition do their own editing) will have to have their expectations changed, but ones that just read normally could certainly use any line-editing features just as they do now... l & h, kev