[OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

[Reginald Beardsley]

--- On Wed, 9/5/12, James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com> wrote:

> From: James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 1:26 PM
> Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> > This is an example of one symptom:
> > 
> > oi%rhb {9} stty -a | egrep opost
> > opost -olcuc onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel
> 
> > oi%rhb {10} stty -onlcr
> > oi%rhb {11} stty -a | egrep opost
> > opost -olcuc onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel
> 

[snip]

> 
> As an experiment, try this:
> 
>     stty -onlcr ; stty -a
> 
> You may well find that the output is jagged (due to the lack
> of
> "onlcr"), and that the output includes "-onlcr".

Well, well...

Apparently /bin/tcsh "helpfully" resets certain of the tty modes.  Can't trust a user to know what they need. /bin/sh and /bin/csh behave as expected.

What a staggering waste of time. Command line retrieval and editing is nice, but not at this price.

Sigh...
Reg