Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:35:50 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: erase/erase2 support Message-ID: <p0611041dbd53c056ce68@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040823153126.GB77326@green.homeunix.org> References: <20040823153126.GB77326@green.homeunix.org>
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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
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