Re: [9fans] 9term?

[Richard <ru@ohio.river.org>]

>>>planning to build my own rc on Linux and link in Gnu Readline per
>>>suggestion of someone here just recently.

forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk writes:

>why not a program that filters all typed input, rather than building it
>into every shell (and every other program that wants it)?  it will be
>harder than on plan 9, but it shouldn't be impossible.

that's exactly what ile does.

I reccommended readline over ile because readline seems to be without
bugs and is very actively supported by FSF, the 300,000 or so
programmers who rely on it and all Linux distributions.  ile, OTOH,
seems to have fewer than 100-500 users, and the most recent ile I could
hunt up, 2.7, doesnt have one of readline's affordances, the one I
appreciate the most, and does something funky with tab characters
appearing on stdout.

its not like either readline or ile is the Right Thing: they're both
stopgap measures to make Unix slightly more tolerable.