[TUHS] Cooked Mode (v8 shell)

[Marc Donner]

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:53 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey at case.edu> wrote:

> On 1/23/23 10:51 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 09:49:08AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> >> On 1/23/23 9:45 AM, Brian M Zick wrote:
> >>>> 6) It ran in cooked mode.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else: What does this phrase mean?
> >>
> >> It did not perform line editing, so it did not change the terminal modes
> >> and read one character at a time. If you only ever read a line at a time
> >> from the terminal, you can let the terminal driver do that for you.
> >
> > I've never been convinced by that particular argument, since if you
> > want command-line completion, the terminal driver is way too
> > low-level.
>
> But that's the point: they don't.
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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