Input Line Editing

[Guy Harris]

> Consider an 80x24 terminal with a 256 character font.
> 
> What is wrong with this scheme?

99 44/100% of the terminals out there don't have 256-character fonts, so it
won't work on 99 44/100% of the terminals out there.  If you need a special
terminal for this, you might as well bite the bullet and get one of the X
terminals coming out; you won't be able to draw arbitrary pictures on the
screen with any sort of reasonable resolution with this hack.

If all you want an "X server on a dumb terminal" for is to have multiple
*character* windows on a dumb terminal, then as I pointed out there are *FAR*
better ways of getting multiple character windows.