multiple switchable line disciplines, we now have a single unified
one which changes its behaviour based on option settings. Each
option setting can be suggested by the back end and/or the terminal
handler, and can be forcibly overridden by the configuration. Local
echo and local line editing are separate, independently switchable,
options.
[originally from svn r895]
automatic fatalbox(). Instead, the error is passed to the receiver
routine, which can decide just how fatal the problem really is.
[originally from svn r894]
