From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 24820 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2022 07:32:49 -0000 Received: from 4ess.inri.net (216.126.196.42) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 31 Jan 2022 07:32:49 -0000 Received: from duke.felloff.net ([216.126.196.34]) by 4ess; Sun Jan 30 07:14:55 -0500 2022 Message-ID: <836430CAEA20EB841EB2515663E8759C@felloff.net> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:14:45 +0100 From: cinap_lenrek@felloff.net To: 9front@9front.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: YAML over AJAX standard hypervisor-oriented frontend Subject: Re: [9front] rewrite gateway Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk > to reply it changes the color of the screen ... thats called hold mode. its a feature of rio the window system. you toggle it by pressing escape key. hold mode lets the user edit multi-line text in a window while the program reading the input is waiting. once you stop hold mode (by pressing escape), the program reading input will get all the text. in normal mode, when you press enter the program gets the line, and editing the text in the window is editing history (what has already been read by the program). -- cinap