[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <njj9fh$r03$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> writes: 

> If you are expecting a password prompt, you might start typing in the 
> password, only to realize that the program had not yet come to the point 
> where it turns off echoing, and since the Unix terminal driver echoes 
> things as you type them, and not when the program actually reads the 
> data, you password is now visible on your screen.
> 
> VMS, on the other hand, do not echo anything before it is actually being 
> read. So in the VMS scenario, you start typing the password even though 
> the program have not yet turned off echoing. But nothing is being 
> echoed, as nothing is reading that input yet. And when the password read 
> is issued, the terminal echoing have been turned off, and so the input 
> is not echoed.

Right.  Same for the up-arrow key to recall a command.