From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:14:19 +0200 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9term? Message-ID: <20000720101418.J3081@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <200007200744.DAA00704@cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200007200744.DAA00704@cse.psu.edu>; from forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:44:32AM +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6feecca-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:44:32AM +0000, forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote: > > >>why a program that filters all typed input, rather than building it into every shell > > i meant, of course, `why not ...'. Hm. Expect would do it more or less trivially, I should imagine, and, in RIO style, it oughtn't to be hard to do it in Xterm. Anything that interposes a pty between the actual tty and the destination can manage it. I'm not even sure that that isn't the way readline does it. I presume the reason it hasn't been done is more that one can't satisfy everyone, rather than it being impossible. Of course, the readline library is dynamically linkable :-) ++L