cooked mode sessions

[Howard Chu]

Howard Chu wrote:
> So far this is only working as expected for dumb programs that don't try to
> manipulate the tty modes. I'm working on some patches to the readline library
> so that it will leave the tty in cooked mode if it detects that EXTPROC is set
> on the tty. So a remote bash shell will defer all input processing to the
> local client. Will also be able to support command completion, if the tty
> session has VEOL set to<TAB>.

Simple patch for bash/readline here

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/a34500e79021003b#

> Right now the tty mode handling on the client is a mess, it will need to be
> rationalized somehow to work cleanly with older raw-mode-only servers along
> with the linemode servers.
>
> Feedback and help would be greatly welcomed.

If anyone is interested, you can just follow along on this repo:

git://github.com/hyc/OpenSSH-LINEMODE.git

Everything should work exactly as before when connecting to an unpatached 
server. With a patched server and patched shell you'll have local editing plus 
command history. I'm still working out how to pass-thru the command completion 
bits.

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