From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 00:12:37 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 A623316A4CE; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:12:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from daintree.corp.yahoo.com (daintree.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9551B43D31; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:12:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@yahoo-inc.com) Received: by daintree.corp.yahoo.com (Postfix, from userid 2154) id 899E68803; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:12:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Wemm To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:12:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040823153126.GB77326@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20040823153126.GB77326@green.homeunix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408311712.37221.peter@wemm.org> cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman cc: arch@FreeBSD.org 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: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:12:37 -0000 On Monday 23 August 2004 08:31 am, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > After jkh added basic erase/erase2 support a while back, I was > wondering why it didn't really seem to matter. It seems that just > about nothing takes into account the possibility of erase2 (VERASE2) > existing, so I took a look and found the three most noticeable > offenders (ncurses, nvi, and less) are all completely orthogonal. I > went ahead and added support in all three, 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. > > 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? > > See: http://green.homeunix.org/~green/erase2.patch My $0.02 worth: I'm all for it. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5