From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 1 22:37:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2335C37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 22:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1426Lg-0000SZ-00; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 23:40:41 -0700 Message-ID: <3A289968.63C593E2@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 23:40:40 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro: erase2 patch (was: 4.2-RELEASE ISO image for x86 updated.) References: <3A24B642.34B50961@softweyr.com> <52694.975362925@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001127144809.A67395@citusc17.usc.edu> <200011272307.eARN7Ln34886@earth.backplane.com> <200012012008.NAA08306@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <3A24B642.34B50961@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: > : 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. > > I see that this has already been committed. I'm not going to argue > with that (I think it was a good idea), but there are other issues in > the tree. > > The issue that I have is that there are many places in the tree where > the erase character is known and things are done based on it. Will > all of those be updated to have the two aces? There's a hack in hack > right now: > > ./games/hack/hack.tty.c: if(c == erase_char || c == '\b') { > > as well as other examples in the tree. > > Talk also has a provision for transporting these characters over the > interface. If both were allowed, some translation would also be > needed. It shouldn't make any different if the interface is in raw mode, which is pretty much required for any character-at-a-time I/O. I would have preferred to see this in a special line discipline module rather than buried on the bowels of the tty driver, so it could be optional behavior. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message