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You're right, your super-terminal does seem a lot like an HP 2645, except for
ONLY quality 8.  Quality 7 is already present in these terminals, in a
somewhat different way.  Suppose you typed:

	% grep coleslaw /user/divt/word

but you meant to give the standard path name for the online dictionary.  On
your 2645, you do the following:

Move the cursor (using the up, down, left, right, home keys) to the beginning
of the incorrect command line.  Delete the '%' with the DELETE CHAR key.
Move the cursor to the 'e' in 'user' with the -> key.  Delete the 'e'.
Move over to the wrong 'v' in 'divt' and type 'c'.  Move to the end of the line
and type an 's' after 'word'.  Press the down key, type your UNIX KILL
character, press the up key, and press the ENTER key.

If you don't like the business in the last sentence, you can push the BLOCK
MODE key before doing anything, and release it before pressing ENTER.
This method is also good if you have a lot of corrections to the stuff
on the screen.  This is not necessary at all if all you want to do is
delete extra characters or simply reenter a line.

To reenter an entire block of stuff, get rid of everything but the block on
the screen while BLOCK MODE is depressed, and then press ENTER without
leaving BLOCK MODE.  This will enter everything on the screen.

Note that your terminal must be set up so that the arrow keys and insert/delete
character don't echo to the computer, so that BLOCK MODE is engaged in the
down position, and so that a BLOCK MODE ENTER means page, not field.

Why do you want quality 8 anyway?  Termcap programs are the only ones who
would care what your terminal does with tabs, and if you do a

	% stty -tabs

UNIX generates spaces instead of ^I for you anyway.
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Dave Decot	..!decvax!cwruecmp!decot

I'm glad I found another 2645 fan.  I've been using this series of
tubes for years on mainly BTL UNIX varieties and here's what I do.
First of all my prompt or PS1 is PS1=':; '  To the Bourne shell this
is a null command which causes it to just go around its command loop
once.  Second I use stty to set my kill character to ^X which is a
non printing character.  Finally I set the -lfkc option which keeps
UNIX from echoing a LF-CR pair with the line kill. Echoing a line
feed-carriage return with the kill is a fairly recent phenom.
Then I use the editing keys do delete and insert. I can also just
overwrite if I want.  Then its just Control-X and enter.

I personally find all these variant shells with their history
mechanisms overrated.



					Joseph L. Wood, III
					AT&T Information Systems
					Laboratories, Holmdel
					(201) 834-3759
					ariel!jlw

You can get what you want with *almost* any terminal, if you use a human
interface (like emacs) that assumes that your human interface is a video
display unit and not a hard-copy device (like sh or csh).  You can customize
your human interface to your heart's content with an arbitrary number of
previous pages.  You can even lay out your keyboard differently if should so
desire.  Of course, what you need is a real window manager as your human
interface, but, unfortunately, our favorite operating system lacks (a) dynamic
linking and (b) classes / modules / objects which makes it somewhat
inconvenient, though not impossible, to write such a human interface with any
degree of efficiency.

Yes, 24x80 is for the birds, but, since I have trouble getting my employer to
buy me something better, at least I can have L-A-R-G-E buffer into which I can
stuff program output and look at it.

I am a born-again emacsimize-your-productivity believer!!!

-- K.S. Bhaskar (John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, Washington)