[TUHS] Command Line Editing in the Terminal Driver

[Chris Hanson]

On Jan 2, 2023, at 12:33 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> 
> Joseph Holsten wrote:
>> Anyone seen any other “terminal drivers” that provide a pleasant
>> alternative to line editing?
> 
> The Stanford AI lab PDP-10 operating system had line editing built in,
> and the E editor integrated with this.

Some operating systems like HP's MPE (and probably also Tandem GUARDIAN) just expected the use of block-mode terminals for purposes of I/O efficiency since interactive use was typically via forms-based applications, and got line editing somewhat as a side-effect.

  -- Chris