[9fans] a toy terminal for OS X

[9fans] a toy terminal for OS X

[Tom Lieber]

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It seemed like it could be fun and educational, so I started making a
9-like terminal for OS X using the native text widget:

  https://github.com/alltom/coolterm

But there are 2 things I’ve had trouble figuring out on my own:

1) Why do programs like ‘python’ show a prompt in 9term but not in my
terminal?

2) Why does bash write your command to stdout? Why doesn’t rc? I use bash,
so I made it erase the command you typed when you press enter, but that
appears to be the wrong thing to do with rc.

There’s other stuff in BUGS.md but I feel more confident about those
things. :)

-- 
Tom Lieber
http://AllTom.com/
http://infinite-sketchpad.com/

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Re: [9fans] a toy terminal for OS X

[Bakul Shah]

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Try the

tty

command. You need to connect the shell to a pseudotty. This should also fix the rc echo problem.

On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Tom Lieber <alltom@gmail.com> wrote:

> It seemed like it could be fun and educational, so I started making a 9-like terminal for OS X using the native text widget:
> 
>   https://github.com/alltom/coolterm
> 
> But there are 2 things I’ve had trouble figuring out on my own:
> 
> 1) Why do programs like ‘python’ show a prompt in 9term but not in my terminal?
> 
> 2) Why does bash write your command to stdout? Why doesn’t rc? I use bash, so I made it erase the command you typed when you press enter, but that appears to be the wrong thing to do with rc.
> 
> There’s other stuff in BUGS.md but I feel more confident about those things. :)
> 
> -- 
> Tom Lieber
> http://AllTom.com/
> http://infinite-sketchpad.com/


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Re: [9fans] a toy terminal for OS X

[Tom Lieber]

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Thank you! openpty() is what I needed.


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> Try the
>
> tty
>
> command. You need to connect the shell to a pseudotty. This should also
> fix the rc echo problem.
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Tom Lieber <alltom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It seemed like it could be fun and educational, so I started making a
> 9-like terminal for OS X using the native text widget:
>
>   https://github.com/alltom/coolterm
>
> But there are 2 things I’ve had trouble figuring out on my own:
>
> 1) Why do programs like ‘python’ show a prompt in 9term but not in my
> terminal?
>
> 2) Why does bash write your command to stdout? Why doesn’t rc? I use bash,
> so I made it erase the command you typed when you press enter, but that
> appears to be the wrong thing to do with rc.
>
> There’s other stuff in BUGS.md but I feel more confident about those
> things. :)
>
> --
> Tom Lieber
> http://AllTom.com/ <http://alltom.com/>
> http://infinite-sketchpad.com/
>
>
>


-- 
Tom Lieber
http://AllTom.com/
http://infinite-sketchpad.com/

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