Character echo at read time
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.ARPA
Fri Sep 2 18:14:28 AEST 1988
In article <371 at polyof.UUCP> john at polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) writes:
>I'm curious to know: do you folks who tolerate "invisible" type-ahead
>ever make mistakes in typing commands (ahead)? If so, when do you detect
>the mistakes? Before it's too late? How do you see what you are correcting?
In a UNIX implementation of deferred echo, presumably one would
type ^R to check his most recent input line while there is still
time to edit it (before typing a newline).
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