execute bash?

[Puming via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 10 April 2016 at 02:59:41 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 April 2016 at 00:47:28 UTC, Puming wrote:
>> 3. when hiting 'vim a.file' on the command, things go messy. 
>> Have you got these interactive commands work in dexpect?
>
> It is surely capturing exactly what vim sends to a terminal, 
> which is primarily a series of control sequences to draw the 
> screen, move the cursor, color it, etc.

Yes, I guess if I fully forward every output/input, it'll work.

>
> You might want to watch for those and just forward them 
> directly to the user terminal... but this is getting kinda 
> wild....

Well, I'm not sure whether I can handle the complexity here. I 
don't even quite understand terminal io/sequence characters yet. 
Come back to this later when I get my little repl running.

>
>> 1. Fully proxy for a bash shell.
>> 2. Result data are separated for each command. So I can easily 
>> search for hitorical sent commands or results.
>
>
> What you probably want to do is just send one command at a time 
> to the bash process and handle the rest yourself.
>
> Or just forget bash and write your own shell.

An indepedent shell would be GREAT! I hope someday we get a REPL 
in D, and it is also an independent shell, just like FishShell, 
but implemented in D, and scripts are also in D.