I'm far from an expert here, but I believe the underlying model here is
that a line at a time in/out of the subordinate command (in this case
picolisp) is the smallest unit of exchange to Acme.

Tell me some details about the environment where you're running
picolisp/acme (OS/architecture/versions of picolisp and acme) and I can try
this out on my side.

-joe

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi lists,
>
> On Friday 28 of September 2012 13:28:57 you wrote:
> > > Acme does not emulate anything resembling ANSI terminal. As far as I
> know,
> > > it only treats TAB and LF characters in special way. In particular, no
> > > cursor addressing resembling anything of ANSI terminal.
> >
> > Yes, but this is on a level higher. The picolisp line editor avoids any
> > dependence on terminal control sequences (termcap or terminfo), by
> > relying solely on spaces and backspaces to format the line.
>
>
> I see now. I have similar annoyance with Git -- which uses ^H (or was it
> CR?)
> to over-write line of text when indicating pull progress (1% ^H^H2% ^H^H^3%
> etc.etc.).
>
>
> > In any way, instead of completely disabling 'led', you might change the
> > function 'chgLine' in "lib/led.l", and replace "^H" ((prin "^H") in
> > three places) with some other character which is suitable for acme.
>
>
> I believe there's no direct replacement, but let's ask the nice folks on
> 9fans@9fans.net -- I'm cross-posting this message.
>
> --
> dexen deVries
>
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