Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!root44!aegl
From: aegl@root.co.uk (Tony Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: where to do line editing?
Message-ID: <623@root44.co.uk>
Date: 3 Aug 88 16:51:58 GMT
References: <678@gtx.com> <593@blblbl.UUCP> <8263@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1188@ficc.UUCP>
Reply-To: aegl@root44.UUCP (Tony Luck)
Organization: UniSoft Ltd, London, England
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In article <1188@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>How IBM mainframe of you. How about putting file editing in the terminal
>as well?
>
Its been done before (sort of) with a micro as the terminal running a
screen editor which kept some of the file locally and chatted to a line
editor on the main frame to request new lines from the file, and to
request the changes. Not too great if you use your screen editor for
browsing (as if you jump about the file to different places you keep
having to wait for lines of data to be down loaded to the micro). But
its terrific for entry of new text as the micro only disturbs the mainframe's
slumber once per screen full (or more) of data.

-Tony Luck