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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Type-ahead in unix
Message-ID: <4422@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Apr 91 12:03:33 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <15686@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>UNIX has "always" supported type-ahead.
>I think what you are discussing is deferred echo.
>Why would you have to have that?

Good question.  I find the "accidental" behaviour of shells like tcsh
ideal - the characters are echoed when you type them (because the tty
is in cooked mode) which makes delete (etc) usable, and again when the
shell reads them (because it does its own echoing), which lets you see
what commands you've executed (easily forgotten :-).

-- Richard
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