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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 2879 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2022 03:11:26 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 22 Feb 2022 03:11:26 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7C7CA9CC00; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:11:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623559CBC6; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:09:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id ED9729CBC6; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:09:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: from cuzuco.com (v.cuzuco.com [166.84.7.17]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9D49CB50 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:09:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuzuco.com (8.14.9/8.13.3) with SMTP id 21M37wSb025906; Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:08:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:07:58 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <202202220308.21M37wSb025906@cuzuco.com> From: Brian Walden To: Subject: Re: [TUHS] v7 source code for sh X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" The one I remember using in the 80s was called "fep" written by Kazumasa Utashiro of Software Research Associates. It was probbaly posetd posted to comp.sources.unix usenet group. -Brian Chet Ramey wrote: > On 2/20/22 4:19 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote: > > Chet Ramey writes: > > > >> It always seemed like it would have been just the thing to implement as a > >> tty streams module, but research Unix went in a different direction. > > > > I'm really surprised nobody has implemented a basic readline as a > > tty line discipline by now. I was poking around the OpenBSD NMEA > > line discipline code a few weeks ago and thinking it shouldn't be > > that hard to do. > > It's not that hard. The complexity is in how sophisticated you want to get > with redisplay and whether you want to allow user-specified key bindings. > > > Did anyone think about doing this in the past? If yes, what made you > > decide against doing it? (Or a streams implementation, for that matter.) > > There have been several implementations (I never did one). I suspect that > the people who were in a position to integrate that functionality into > distributed kernels were not supportive, or the code didn't get to them > at the right time. > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/