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From: duncan@dg-rtp.dg.com (W. Lee Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix deficiencies/problems (immediate character echoing)
Summary: I like type ahead to echo
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Date: 15 May 89 16:13:27 GMT
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Personally, I like my typeahead to echo.  The reason?  If I type something
in incorrectly (which, amazingly, happens quite a bit), I can figure it
out just by watching the screen.

Also, one person mentioned that they didn't like how typeahead worked
because when the commands they'd typed ahead finally did get executed,
they didn't see the command echoed then.  I think the best solution
to this is how the Korne shell works.  When it executes a command,
it looks to see if the command was typed ahead.  If so, it echoes
the command itself. 

Another person mentioned that they sometimes had to hit "backspace"
just to see which characters disappeared, and which didn't.  Most
systems have a "redraw" character (usually "control-R"), so that,
by hitting this character, the current line will be redrawn.  You
may not have this though, because, on those systems, if you get
a prompt and you have half of a line typed in, then hit backspace,
the line will redraw itself (as if you had typed the redraw
character).  For my info, which systems don't have this.

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