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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
Keywords: echo tty device driver line discipline
Message-ID: <8418@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 2 Sep 88 08:14:28 GMT
References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4477@mtgzz.att.com> <371@polyof.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <371@polyof.UUCP> john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) writes:
>I'm curious to know: do you folks who tolerate "invisible" type-ahead
>ever make mistakes in typing commands (ahead)?  If so, when do you detect
>the mistakes?  Before it's too late?  How do you see what you are correcting?

In a UNIX implementation of deferred echo, presumably one would
type ^R to check his most recent input line while there is still
time to edit it (before typing a newline).