On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:47:15 +1200 Andy Elvey <andy.el...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi all - > I've just been looking at the docs for cons and consolefs. I am just > **blown away** by how cleanly and elegantly keyboard input is handled in > Plan 9! There seems to be *none* of the - um - "less than optimal", to > put it mildly - approach of Linux, with its termios and friends. > There doesn't even seem to be the need for "readline",as far as I can tell. > > I assume it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to > implement this approach to keyboard-handling on Linux - would I be > correct in saying that? It's a pity, if that's the case. > > Anyway, just a bit of praise there for the Plan 9 devs..... :) > - Andy > I think you echo all our thoughts there. As to implementing Plan 9's keyboard handling, am I right in assuming you mean for the purpose of writing programs for such a clean interface? If so, you might want to try linking with the plan9port libraries. Alternatively (and probably better) just write for Plan 9 and import your Linux file systems. Drawterm and 9vx provide very easy access to the host's files and u9fs isn't far behind. Almost all the editing and shell operations I do on my Linux box these days are done via drawterm, the only exception being root-owned files. By the way, if you run p9p acme on Linux as root, don't use win. The pty subsystem crashes or something; you have to reboot before you can open any X term. :D -- This is obviously some strange usage of the word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.
