From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 18 16:20:34 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3876E14C94; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA22300; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:19:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:19:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: "David O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/libreadline FREEBSD-upgrade rlstdc.h CHANGELOG CHANGES MANIFEST Makefile.in README aclocal.m4 bind.c callback.c complete.c configure configure.in display.c funmap.c histexpand.c histfile.c histlib.h history.c history.h input.c ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > FWIW, the correct behavior seems to be to beep and complain rather than > accept the ^H. This is from my memory of how the vi standard dictates > the behavior, how nvi works, and how it coincides with libedit. The > proper behavior, IIRC, is such that backspace will only delete any text > in vi that has been typed during the same command. I.e.: > > ifoAo would give you "fo" and > ifooA would give you "foo" > > I'd prefer to keep in line with the vi standard for behavior rather than > how libreadline (and, btw, pdksh) make things more convenient/less > correct. That seems reasonable. My gut reaction to the ovserved 'sh' behavior was "humm... seems like it works to me." -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message