Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:30:56 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, rps@merlin.mat.uc.pt Subject: Re: Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro: erase2 patch (was: 4.2-RELEASE ISO image for x86 updated.) Message-ID: <20001130073056.G58294@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <53352.975375693@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <mckusick@mckusick.com> <53352.975375693@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> wrote: > >> I do not believe that we need/want a general aliasing facility as >> erase is really the only character for which there is widespead >> disagreement over which character to use. > >Well, there are the ^U vs ^X folks for line-kill (some even argue for >^W) which is why I cited it as another example; I agree that it's by >no means as prevalent as ^H vs DEL though. And we *love* SVR4 OSs that bind ^? to intr. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@covalent.net Chad for President! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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