Actually it is a great thread, I also agree with Christian what the full-text editor support should be a part of interpreter (as it is in IBM APL2 and Dyalog).
Kacper Gutowski <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:30:14AM +0100, Alexey Veretennikov wrote: >> Using )HOST Vim complains "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal" >> and not really useful (can't see what I type for instance). >> Same if I use popen() via ⎕FIO. > > )HOST and popen are essentially the same thing and they both capture > output of the command you are running. But as they take command to > be interpreted by shell, you can explicitly redirect output to the > terminal yourself: > > )HOST vim >/dev/tty > > In case of vim, which reinitializes terminal settings itself and isn't > bothered by having echo disabled, this is everything you need to make > it work. > > See also <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2016-03/msg00138.html> > for working proof-of-concept implementation of what Jürgen wrote. > > -k -- Br, /Alexey
