From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 29 23:31:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC5837B402 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:31:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.15 #3) id 141OBE-0008I8-00; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:30:56 +0000 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:30:56 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Kirk McKusick , 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: <20001130073056.G58294@hand.dotat.at> References: <53352.975375693@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <53352.975375693@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >> I do not believe that we need/want a general aliasing facility as >> erase is really the only character for which there is widespead >> disagreement over which character to use. > >Well, there are the ^U vs ^X folks for line-kill (some even argue for >^W) which is why I cited it as another example; I agree that it's by >no means as prevalent as ^H vs DEL though. And we *love* SVR4 OSs that bind ^? to intr. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@covalent.net Chad for President! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message