From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] isatty
In-Reply-To: Message from "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
   of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:51:37 EST." <20010214135140.5293B199EC@mail.cse.psu.edu>
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:42:11 -0500
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| Yeah. For purity and consistency, I tried to get TD to forget
| about prompting in rc, just have it run commands, but he
| caved in to pressure from less clean-minded people.

Maybe the window system could do the prompting.  It could check if there
are any outstanding read requests for a window, and if so, change the
border color, or something like that.