Question on implementing "repeat...until keypress"?

[guy at gorodish.UUCP]

>It's also much easier to simply turn RAW on than to grovel through
>struct tchars and struct ltchars turning all the characters off and
>then fiddling half a dozen bits to get the literal input and output
>effect.

This is completely irrelevant.  Fiddling all the modes individually
doesn't provide the proper mode, so the fact that fiddling them is
more complicated doesn't make any difference.  If it were possible to
get a more correct mode by fiddling lots of bits, that would be the
right thing to do; the fact that it might be easier to do the wrong
thing than the right thing is no excuse for doing the wrong thing.