Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:07:21 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.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: <200011272307.eARN7Ln34886@earth.backplane.com> References: <52694.975362925@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001127144809.A67395@citusc17.usc.edu>
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:> I just received this today and am kind of scratching my head over it.
:> On one hand, creating an "alias" for a one specific piece of terminal
:> character mapping seems a hack; I can see the idea behind wanting to
:> use one of n characters for something like backspacing or line-killing
:> (^U or ^X for example) and would not frown (as much) on a more general
:> aliasing feature. On the other hand, I can see that this specific
:> case (erase) is by far the most significant. Which is why I'm
:> forwarding this to arch - this is one of those classic
:> architecture/feature trade-off decisions and I would like to hear more
:> opinions before deciding which way I'd like to respond to this.
:
:This is a very common newbie problem ("Stupid FreeBSD won't let me
:delete what I've typed, it just prints ^H!"). Commit please! :)
:
:Kris
This is one of those things where, 10 years ago, I would probably
have been a purist and been opposed to it.
But after 15+ years of pure hell having to deal with every
conceivable combination of ^H and ^?, terminal types,
telnet, rlogin, ssh, and so on and so forth... I say to
hell with the purist view on this one. I'd love to
see this committed!
-Matt
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