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From: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
To: chet.ramey@case.edu
Cc: segaloco <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cooked Mode (v8 shell)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 15:40:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALQ0xCAVVigXS_wnVuyrMP_Vz6q_AU7pKfjAFdMo_q4gQ9meQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a31c330c-5761-954d-d9ed-9a49b9c1f7b6@case.edu>

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:53 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 1/23/23 10:51 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 09:49:08AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> >> On 1/23/23 9:45 AM, Brian M Zick wrote:
> >>>> 6) It ran in cooked mode.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else: What does this phrase mean?
> >>
> >> It did not perform line editing, so it did not change the terminal modes
> >> and read one character at a time. If you only ever read a line at a time
> >> from the terminal, you can let the terminal driver do that for you.
> >
> > I've never been convinced by that particular argument, since if you
> > want command-line completion, the terminal driver is way too
> > low-level.
>
> But that's the point: they don't.
>
> --
> ``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/
>
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2023-01-23 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-22  7:38 [TUHS] v8 shell Rob Pike
2023-01-22 14:52 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2023-01-23 14:45   ` [TUHS] Re: Cooked Mode (v8 shell) Brian M Zick
2023-01-23 14:49     ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-23 15:51       ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-23 15:53         ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-23 20:40           ` Marc Donner [this message]

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