Re^2: Strangeness in shell (really shell history discussion)

[Dave Hammond]

In article <8307 at boring.cwi.nl> guido at piring.cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>application; it should see lines exactly as they are input by the
>application.  If the application is not reading text on a line-by-line
>basis, the history mechanism should be clever enough not to store those
>bits of input; in Unix, cbreak or raw mode would be a reasonable hint. 

There was a program previously posted to comp.sources, called ILE (Input
Line Editor?), which does just that.  As I recall, it sat on A pty (or
socket?) line, providing editing/history in cooked tty mode, and keeping
out of the way in raw/cbreak mode.

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Dave Hammond
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