Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:48:09 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: 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: <20001127144809.A67395@citusc17.usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <52694.975362925@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:08:45PM -0800 References: <52694.975362925@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:08:45PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard 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
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