23 Jan
2023
23 Jan
'23
9:40 p.m.
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:53 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey(a)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:
But that's the point: they don't.
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On 1/23/23 9:45 AM, Brian M Zick wrote:
I've never been convinced by that particular argument, since if you
want command-line completion, the terminal driver is way too
low-level. > 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.