csh / bsd job control

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen):
>I think the best thing to do is to have the shell always restore
>the mode to what it was before the program was called, irrespective
>of whether the program should have stopped, exited, or aborted.  

This is almost what tcsh does; I like it.  Tcsh doesn't try to restore
modes.  Instead, it notes *changes*.  It obeys the sane ones for
command line editing while leaving the rest in place for other hapless
applications.  :-)

For example, "stty erase '^?'" affects the tcsh backspace operation,
but "stty -echo" doesn't.  However, the "stty -echo" *will* affect
other programs.  No, it's not perfect, but at least it prevents weird
modes that keep you from typing "stty sane".
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