Very smart terminaks
Hal Peterson
hrp at cray.UUCP
Thu Sep 12 02:58:15 AEST 1985
> > While I'm at it, the terminal is also where history belongs...
> Also it's kind of nice when I display history not to see things like
> 21 man greengrocer^Uman 3 grd^Heen^Wsprintf
> I think there is just too much stuff here for even a smart terminal, or a
> PC to deal with, it has to understand the guts of too many OSes to be economicly
> feasible . . .
> George Williams
The easy answer to this is to just make the terminal smart enough
to do command line editing locally, which is what IBM 3270s have
done (poorly, I admit) for years. Local command-line editing and
history would be obvious features to build into Blit software--so
obvious that I'll bet somebody out there already has. Any takers?
Hal Peterson
ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!cray!hrp
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