From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-01T02:19:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Hiding user input

On Jul 31, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:19:44 +0900,
> James Edward Gray II wrote in [ruby-talk:262624]:
>>>> Without Highline!!!!!!!!
>>>> Sorry, James, I love the library, but I need this to work over IO.
>>>
>>> Highline doesn't work over IO?
>>
>> I've not tested it over sockets, but I would like it to work there.
>> If there are problems, I would prefer we patch them.
>
> Does noecho over sockets have any meanings?

Exactly.

If you are talking to something like a Telnet client you would need  
to use that protocol to query the client about its capabilities and  
request that it change its input mode.

James Edward Gray II