Character echo at read time

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <4659 at cbmvax.UUCP> ditto at cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) writes:
>No, no, no... part of the beauty of doing echo the non-unix way is that you
>don't need to ^R to see what you typed.  It's unix-echo that causes your
>input line to get screwed up so you have to type ^R.

So how the hell can you see what you typed so far without having
to wait until the matching input operation is initiated?

I have used deferred-echo systems and one DOES need ^R.