🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Oct2.091000.9204@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
s902255@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Andrew Vanderstock) writes:

> 	o pretty  - a curses based terminal setter
> 	o xpretty - a x-based front end to gstty similar in style to pretty, but
> 		    with x-widgets to select various settings for example.

This is what I'm still waiting for... I suggest an online help for
each setting gstty provides in the curses- and X-based versions. How
often did I wonder "and what does THIS?" Every item should have a
description.


> 
> 	I would like to write stty which should be called gstty for sake of
> logical naming (ie gcc, gawk, etc...). It would have logical features that
> simplify the current (horrid) interface to such an extent that the old
> features would quickly die out, although we have to provide compatibility
> with them for quite some time.

I think it is very important to be compatible with the current
versions of stty.  And if you accomplish this with a global sttyrc
file, it won't do any harm even if you stay compatible in the future.
I'm not sure how fast the use of the old user interface would die out
-- some scripts may have a long, lasting life, and old habits of
quickly typing "stty -xxx" may die hard, too.

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Juergen Nickelsen                               nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de