Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:54:42 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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: <3A24B642.34B50961@softweyr.com> References: <52694.975362925@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001127144809.A67395@citusc17.usc.edu> <200011272307.eARN7Ln34886@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> :> 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!
IMHO, this is one of the biggest arguments for using bash. I get bitten
all the time when I leave bash for another interactive program that no
longer provides BS/DEL compatibility. Fixing it everywhere is a good
idea.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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