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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: tenex-style command editing in a Unix shell?
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.041822.26630@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 26 Apr 91 04:18:22 GMT
References: <24410@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <24410@well.sf.ca.us> Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us> writes:
>All these different shells, tcsh, ksh, bash, zsh, but do any of them
>implement tenex-style command completion and prompting, the most perfect
>command-line interface ever devised?  I admit it would be a little weird
>trying to fit it into Unix, since the commands are so numerous and free-form,
>but I can think of a couple ways to do it.

Is that what the kermit command line interface is supposed to emulate? It
runs on lots of platforms, but the code is a nightmare of #ifdef's regarding
the tty i/o.
Does the real thing give an error message when you have typo and then
take the next thing as the beginning of a new line even though you
didn't hit return there?
E.g. you mean to type: "set rec pack 1000", but instead hit "fet":
?Invalid - fet
rec pac
Escape back to your local kermit and prepare to send now.

I hate it when that happens...

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us
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