From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: segaloco <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cooked Mode (v8 shell)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:53:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a31c330c-5761-954d-d9ed-9a49b9c1f7b6@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y86tDf+ztYdGxUe3@mit.edu>
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/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-23 15:54 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 [this message]
2023-01-23 20:40 ` Marc Donner
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