Ted Lemon wrote:
On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:25 PM, der Mouse wrote:The design I have in mind makes the line editing part of the tty driver as far as applications are concerned, like the current "delete, ^W, ^U" line editing performed by the kernel. The only way applications need to care about it is for hooks like application-specific editor commands or completion behaviour.So basically you're proposing a COMND% JSYS? :')
Finally someone said it. :-)But the COMND% JSYS wasn't exactly just line editing. I could just wish for COMND%, but that's not likely to happen. COMND% was more about describing the structure of the line expected, so that completion could be done on it. (TOPS-20 can to completion on everything, not just filenames.)
In fact, COMND% don't have line editing...
Oh well. Still, COMND% is wonderful.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt%softjar.se@localhost || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol