where to do line editing?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

al at gtx.com writes:
>    [line editing as in ksh is mighty neat, but might be better done
>     in the kernel, notwithstanding arguments against user interfaces
>     being implemented there.  Alternate suggestion is to create a
>     library such as curses, but has the drawback of requiring explicit
>     programming to put it to use.]
> 
>    Comments, flames? Anybody done it, meant to do it, thought about
>    it, rejected it?

Fortune System's port of the BSD4.X UN*X, which is called For:Pro, can perform
a lot of fancy editing on input lines. This would not be apparent to the
applications which do not use RAW mode.  So far as I can remember, the
individual editing functions were requested/installed through specific
IOCTL/SGTTY calls. Perhaps some of the people that worked on this could
elaborate.

Sincerely
-- 
Fariborz ``Skip'' Tavakkolian

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