From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 26 16:35:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E2F16A4CE; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:35:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF29D43D45; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:35:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i7QGZpR2009917; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:35:52 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040823153126.GB77326@green.homeunix.org> References: <20040823153126.GB77326@green.homeunix.org> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:35:50 -0400 To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , arch@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: erase/erase2 support X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:35:53 -0000 At 11:31 AM -0400 8/23/04, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: >... I went ahead and added support in [ncurses, nvi, and less], but >I think we need to decide if the proper course of action right now is >to get these changes accepted and finish implementing erase2; if we >don't try to support it pervasively, I don't feel it has very good >value. Fwiw, I would also like to see more programs support erase2. The one where I notice it the most is actually /usr/bin/mail... >It's a no-brainer to add support to nvi, since it's essentially "ours" >now to do what we want with. How many other OSen have erase2 support >such that the ncurses and less maintainers will see the value in it? I could have sworn that some OS had erase2 when jkh added it, but at the moment I can not find an example. Maybe it was just patterned after eol2, which shows up in at least linux and solaris. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu