Re: Reactive Keyboard

["Josh N. Pritikin" <jpab+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

> perhaps fd passing?  fd#10 (<--some well-known number) would be a pipe
> to/from the editor where you could write() changes in cwd?  (fd 3 is
> used by Dan Bernstein's pty package, for /dev/tty, btw.)

Yah. I was going to suggest a similar mechanism.

> we're sort of going off the subject of rc here, but hopefully, enough
> of us are concerned about making *modular* (not in the shell) line
> editing interfaces that we can have some talk about it.  besides, rc
> is perfect, already, right??  :-)

That's why I brought it up. rc is pretty much exacly what I want in a
shell (except for its lack of job control :-) but I would never
consider using it without emacs like editing functions. I feel that
something like rk provides this without bloating rc with unnecessary
features. From this point of view, rk and similar hacks seems quite
relivent to this list.

Currently, I don't know enough about the tty to try hacking rc-rk
communication in but it sounds like an interesting project if I have
time.

( Josh Pritikin jpab+@andrew.cmu.edu
( It might be hot in Pittsburgh, but at least it's humid.