[TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/1/17 4:37 PM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think what Ralph wants is something like "LINES=1 vi"
>> but without clearing the screen so that commands that
>> are cursor relative can work. rlwrap and readline don't
>> edit the current line in the file, only the command input.
> 
> OK, that I can understand.  It's ages since I played with
> readline, but I think you can preload the buffer it works on
> (bash does that, no?) so ed + readline could be made to work
> that way.

Yes, you can set a startup hook to preload the buffer contents. Bash
uses that for `read -ei'.


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