Keyboard
bindings for example; why couldn't they be handled by a program that
just does keyboard bindings + line editing, and writes finalized lines
to the shell.

Like... readline(3)?

SEE ALSO
       The Gnu Readline Library, Brian Fox and Chet Ramey
       The Gnu History Library, Brian Fox and Chet Ramey
       bash(1)

-- man readline

--On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:53 PM +0800 sqweek <sqw...@gmail.com> wrote:

2009/4/7 Corey <co...@comfortstore.net>:
Keyboard
bindings for example; why couldn't they be handled by a program that
just does keyboard bindings + line editing, and writes finalized lines
to the shell.

 Congratulations, you've perceived the difference between shell and
terminal. A lot of people stuck in modern unix fail to notice this
one... which is not that surprising considering the state of modern
unix terminals (9term excepted - quiet Anothy :P).
-sqweek






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