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, when you're happy, send it. emacs actually has a feature that you could use to try this out: M-x shell (alt-x or esc followed by x, then it prompts you at the bottom of emacs's window, and you type "shell" and hit enter) This gives you an emacs (sub-)window talking to a shell, from which you can invoke ssh (see, also M-x send-invisible when it prompts you for a password, if someone else can see your screen). You get to type what you like, but it doesn't send it until you hit enter, so you can edit to your heart's content. There may actually be an ssh specific varient of this mode, but if so, I haven't used it. The tougher thing is if you want to send an incomplete line sometime. Say, to request the remote shell to do filename completeion. I'm not sure how to do that (if there's a "send what you've got without a trailing carriage return character" command, I haven't found it in the docs). I poked around the elisp once a few years ago, but didn't find anything easy. Another issue is (or was) applications using curses, since some combination of the emacs terminal emmulation and the termtype didn't work (though I seem to recall that it might be better now). Bill _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
