Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!cmcl2!phri!marob!daveh 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 Lines: 14 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. -- Dave Hammond daveh@marob.masa.com