From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 27 15: 7:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D7437B479; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eARN7Ln34886; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:07:21 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200011272307.eARN7Ln34886@earth.backplane.com> To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Jordan Hubbard , 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.) References: <52694.975362925@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001127144809.A67395@citusc17.usc.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message