Hi lists, On Friday 28 of September 2012 13:28:57 you wrote: > > Acme does not emulate anything resembling ANSI terminal. As far as I know, > > it only treats TAB and LF characters in special way. In particular, no > > cursor addressing resembling anything of ANSI terminal. > > Yes, but this is on a level higher. The picolisp line editor avoids any > dependence on terminal control sequences (termcap or terminfo), by > relying solely on spaces and backspaces to format the line.
I see now. I have similar annoyance with Git -- which uses ^H (or was it CR?) to over-write line of text when indicating pull progress (1% ^H^H2% ^H^H^3% etc.etc.). > In any way, instead of completely disabling 'led', you might change the > function 'chgLine' in "lib/led.l", and replace "^H" ((prin "^H") in > three places) with some other character which is suitable for acme. I believe there's no direct replacement, but let's ask the nice folks on 9fans@9fans.net -- I'm cross-posting this message. -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]]
