> Unfortunately, echon.c doesn't solve the problem either, because it
> doesn't output a trailing newline. The crux of the problem is how to
> output "-n" on a line by itself, followed by a newline. I don't think
if you give me 2^n pennies for the nth way i can think of doing this,
i'm gonna be loaded
0. awk 'BEGIN{print "-n"; exit}'
1. echo x -n | sed 's/^ //'
2. echo print "-n\n" | hoc
3. echo '"-n
"' | bc
4. unicode 2d 6e | tr -d '\012' ; echo
5. echo '' -n | tr -d ' '
6. '-n' = 1; whatis -n | sed 's/=.*//'
> I'm trying to write an Acme client in rc(1). I'd like to avoid spawning
> a new read(1) process every time I make a keystroke or click the mouse.
> Using multi-line reads wouldn't help much, because interactivity needs
> to be maintained.
i don't know what your application is, you don't need to get
every mouseclick. see the Mail client.
- erik
