dansmith@well.UUCP (Dan "Bucko" Smith) (06/08/89)
I just started using atty on a Vax running 4.3 BSD. "grabchars",
which is a program that I wrote, doesn't pick up characters directly
if invoked from a shell that is under atty. Grabchars has been
distributed in comp.sources.misc.
Anyways, I imagine that the problem lies in grabchars [*], but I
currently don't have the time to look at it. I'll fix it as soon as
I can. I've long promised a port to Sys V as well, soon!
[*] I think this because mush, vi, and other curses programs don't
have any problem when invoked from atty.
As for atty, good job! I really like it. It works out
better than fep (front end processor). Has anyone worked out a
way to pass the escape character to csh so that filename completion
can be handled (without having to call fmatch?). It would be great
if there was a way for atty to pick up what directory (for filename
completion) its child shell was in. A quick and dirty way would be
to have all directory changing aliases echo the $CWD to a file,
and for atty to read that file every time the filename completion
character was pressed (yuk!) A better way would be to use some form
of interprocess communication, any ideas?
dan
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