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From: kgk@cs.brown.edu
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Subject: Re: Wanted: minimal EMACS in C
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Date: 27 Mar 89 02:14:58 GMT
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This discussion reminds me of something I've always wondered about.

Version 8 or version 9 Unix is supposed to have had some sort of
streams mechanism.  Does anybody know if it's possible to put an
input editor filter over a terminal I/O stream (or dynamically merge
input editor capability into an I/O stream, as may be the case)?

I guess a quick answer would be ``Why would they develop ksh if they
could do that?'', but I'm still curious.


Keiji Kanazawa
kgk@cs.brown.edu