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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re^2: Strangeness in shell (really shell history discussion)
Message-ID: <24E376F3.1E05@marob.masa.com>
Date: 12 Aug 89 01:01:37 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC,  New York City
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In article <8307@boring.cwi.nl> guido@piring.cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>application; it should see lines exactly as they are input by the
>application.  If the application is not reading text on a line-by-line
>basis, the history mechanism should be clever enough not to store those
>bits of input; in Unix, cbreak or raw mode would be a reasonable hint. 

There was a program previously posted to comp.sources, called ILE (Input
Line Editor?), which does just that.  As I recall, it sat on A pty (or
socket?) line, providing editing/history in cooked tty mode, and keeping
out of the way in raw/cbreak mode.

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Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com