delkey change

delkey change

[BurnZeZ]

Context: rev 4962 a58ca60592df4733886ad15b0d7ab2909fb2b40e

Wasn't the point of delkey that you could use it with limited hardware?
For example, a serial console, or a cpu server limited to vga text mode.

Re: [9front] delkey change

[Julius Schmidt]

Even if you wanted to support that usecase, why build it into delkey?
It would be trivial to make a rc script to run commands from stdin asking y/n for each of them.
It would also be useful for kill and other commands.

On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, BurnZeZ@feline.systems wrote:

> Context: rev 4962 a58ca60592df4733886ad15b0d7ab2909fb2b40e
>
> Wasn't the point of delkey that you could use it with limited hardware?
> For example, a serial console, or a cpu server limited to vga text mode.
>

Re: [9front] delkey change

[BurnZeZ]

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> Even if you wanted to support that usecase, why build it into delkey?
> It would be trivial to make a rc script to run commands from stdin asking y/n for each of them.
> It would also be useful for kill and other commands.
> 
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, BurnZeZ@feline.systems wrote:
> 
> > Context: rev 4962 a58ca60592df4733886ad15b0d7ab2909fb2b40e
> >
> > Wasn't the point of delkey that you could use it with limited hardware?
> > For example, a serial console, or a cpu server limited to vga text mode.
> >
> 

Got your reply while I was typing a mail to inquire about the same thing.
I attached a script that echoes the same prompt as old delkey.
(I'm not interested in pikeshedding something better)

Seems to work pretty well.

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#!/bin/rc

rfork e

ifs='
'
while(s=`{read}){
	echo -n $s '? [y/n]' >/dev/cons
	switch(`{read /dev/cons}){
	case y* Y*
		rc -c $s
	case q* Q*
		exit
	}
}