Character echo at read time

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <8418 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In a UNIX implementation of deferred echo, presumably one would
>type ^R to check his most recent input line while there is still
>time to edit it (before typing a newline).

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.

With echo done right, you wouldn't even need a ^R feature except when some
extraneous output happens while you are in the middle of a line -- such as
when someone write()s to your terminal or if a background job does some
output.
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