Re: [newbie] terminal handling facilities

["Aaron Brown" <aaron-lua@...>]

David Given wrote:

> I know this isn't what you want to hear, but as someone
> who uses terminals extensively, *please* use curses! Or at
> least termcap, which is easier to interface to, but is
> much more irritating to use.

Oh, I certainly think of the stty trick as a quick-and-dirty
solution.

Elsewhere in the thread Glenn Maynard wrote:

> I'm in screen, with nine screens open inside;

At the risk of getting too far off topic, screen is an
awesome program.  It has changed the way I work.

<http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/>

-- 
Aaron