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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:47:47 -0500
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Implementing cooked mode
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> > If a program has the console in raw mode, can it erase characters or
> > words that it has echoed to the screen?
>
> No.

This is actually only half true.  You can echo backspaces and it will
erase up to the beginning of the line, but no earlier.

Russ