in reply to Re^4: Avoid newline echoing so I can capture a line and reprompt over it
in thread Avoid newline echoing so I can capture a line and reprompt over it

I think the general algorithm would be to turn off echoing and use some function that reads one character at a time, echoing it if it's NOT a newline, and stopping the input procedure when it IS a newline.
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