https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_mode ===== nygeek.net mindthegapdialogs.com/home On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:53 AM Chet Ramey 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/ > >