31 Dec
2022
31 Dec
'22
5:40 p.m.
Hi Jon,
Just as history and line editing were a possible enhancement to the TTY
driver, didn't Pike comment that job control was cooked up in foreign
climes because they couldn't drag out a new TTY window in pixels?
Was something like screen(1)'s ‘Ctrl-A c’ considered in the TTY driver
to spin up another pseudo-TTY rather than suspend the long job with
Ctrl-Z and ‘bg’ it?
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Cheers, Ralph.
I guess in
interactive use most users would only miss one thing:
the history & line editing capability?
Job control?