Nice meaty discussion on this topic! As Paul mentioned, cellular
data can be considered high-latency for most purposes, so this one
probably isn't going out of style any time soon.
On Sep 14, 2007, at 16:13, Ben Scott wrote:
PuTTY does appear to support this, more-or-less, by going to
On 9/16/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Somebody stop me before I try running PuTTY under WINE on Linux. :)
PuTTY has been ported to *nix/X11. :)
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-unix
I guess a good ancillary question is where's the development
On Sep 14, 2007, at 14:17, Paul Lussier wrote:
You mean like ssh, screen, and emacs ;)
I've attempted this on a satellite link and, believe me, it's only
suited to medium-latency links. ssh-ing to Mars would suck as well.
Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell? I'd love to edit my
On 9/14/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've attempted this on a satellite link ...
Heh heh heh. Me too(TM). It's a different experience when you can
measure ping RTT using a hand-held stop watch. :)
Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell?
Stephen Bourne. (According
Bill McGonigle writes:
...
Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell? I'd love to edit my
line locally and then send it in these situations rather than waiting
for characters to echo back.
What you really want is a line mode terminal program. One that lets
you edit locally, then,
I have not used FreeNX but I did use their commercial product NX. It
made a huge
improvement.
Don
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On 9/14/07, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The tougher thing is if you want to send an incomplete line sometime.
Say, to request the remote shell to do filename completeion.
I suspect file name completion might be one of those advanced
features one has to give up when you go back to
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:13:27PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
At that point, the hard part is finding a *terminal* that supports a
local line editing mode. I think there might be an xterm or rxvt
option somewhere for this. Maybe on one of the [CTRL]+click menus?
(I'm not at an xterm right
I suspect file name completion might be one of those advanced
features one has to give up when you go back to the bad-old-days
of high-latency links and local editing.
Yeesh! D'ya think? ;-
Much of coolness offered by bash (completions, editing modes,
etc) is a direct result of bash's
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:19:19 -0400
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9/14/07, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The tougher thing is if you want to send an incomplete line sometime.
Say, to request the remote shell to do filename completeion.
I suspect file name completion
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