[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-06-15, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2016-06-14 21:23, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> The best solution appears to be to keep the editing of the current line
>> in the terminal driver (which would allow repainting of the line if
>> there's any output while the user is typing) and to keep management of
>> the command history within the application itself.
>
> Well, you could argue that the application should be responsible for the 
> repainting as well...
>

Depends; I'm thinking about things like broadcast messages from various
random sources which are not under the control of the application.

If it's a SMG style character cell windowed application then the
application has to do it. If it's a scrolling TTY type application then
a read with prompt gives the terminal driver enough information to do
it itself.

Simon.

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