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Subject: Re: [9front] Mouse clipping patch
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On 14/07/2021, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> i still don't see it. either rio consumes the commands or it forwards
> them. i don't see anything inbetween.
> where is the complication?

It's not a complication in terms of code, it's that it's an
untransparent interface.  If we think that window management : the
windows :: the line discipline : the shell, then keyboard-driven wm is
like when the line discipline used to interpret # and @.

There's nothing obvious about Unix commands, which one you want for
what you're trying to do. But knowing the command is *all* the
difficulty - there's no further difficulty in the "transmit the
command from the user to the shell" layer, it's just "for each letter
in the command, type that letter on the keyboard".

The outermost layer needs to be transparent, perhaps so that stuff on
the other side of it can get more leeway to be confusing.