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From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
Summary: ^R is almost obsoleted by fixing echo
Keywords: echo tty device driver line discipline
Message-ID: <4659@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 88 04:20:18 GMT
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Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8418@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>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).

No, no, no... part of the beauty of doing echo the non-unix way is that you
don't need to ^R to see what you typed.  It's unix-echo that causes your
input line to get screwed up so you have to type ^R.

With echo done right, you wouldn't even need a ^R feature except when some
extraneous output happens while you are in the middle of a line -- such as
when someone write()s to your terminal or if a background job does some
output.
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