Stuart Morrow <morrow.stu...@googlemail.com> writes: > You've all seen the "terminal-aware sam" on the website: > >> It has been suggested that “…a curses interface for the >> sam protocol would be interesting and perhaps even useful…” > > I have a different suggestion, arguably better because it works as > a frontend to ANY stdin/stdout program. > > You know the way when a terminal is in line mode, read calls don't > receive anything until you hit enter? It's nice. > > And you know the way there's stuff (rlwrap) that simulates line mode > by itself by setting the REAL tty to raw mode, but then intermediating > reads between the tty your program, cooking the input while it does? > > My idea is to have something like rlwrap, but which runs full-screen, like > vi, cursor addressing and whatnot, which can provide hold mode in addition > to line mode. You run ed or sam -d in it, and you've basically got the nice- > ness of those editors, which also having something similar to a screen editor > on the terminal.
I think this will be a valuable tool that I wished for in many cases. (It would be a kind of "ncurses 9term".) However, for a "terminal sam" I would want more integration, such as switching between different windows and visual display of the dot. -- Christian Neukirchen <chneukirc...@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
