From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:47:15 +1200 From: Andy Elvey To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-id: <50380473.2000001@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=------------070601060509000805060305 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 Subject: [9fans] The cons file and consolefs Topicbox-Message-UUID: af5bbb22-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070601060509000805060305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all - I've just been looking at the docs for cons and consolefs. I am just **blown away** by how cleanly and elegantly keyboard input is handled in Plan 9! There seems to be *none* of the - um - "less than optimal", to put it mildly - approach of Linux, with its termios and friends. There doesn't even seem to be the need for "readline",as far as I can tell. I assume it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to implement this approach to keyboard-handling on Linux - would I be correct in saying that? It's a pity, if that's the case. Anyway, just a bit of praise there for the Plan 9 devs..... :) - Andy --------------070601060509000805060305 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all -
I've just been looking at the docs for cons and consolefs. I am just **blown away** by how cleanly and elegantly keyboard input is handled in Plan 9! There seems to be *none* of the - um - "less than optimal", to put it mildly - approach of Linux, with its termios and friends.
There doesn't even seem to be the need for "readline",as far as I can tell.

I assume it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to implement this approach to keyboard-handling on Linux - would I be correct in saying that? It's a pity, if that's the case.

Anyway, just a bit of praise there for the Plan 9 devs..... :)
- Andy

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