From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: zefram@fysh.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:48:22 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15lH6s-0000Vf-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15lGlf-0000uq-00@bowl.fysh.org> from "zefram@fysh.org" at Sep 23, 2001 10:26:27 PM
> termios(3) gets its erase character from user setting via stty(1) or
> tset(1), neither of which know what character will be generated by the
> terminal's main backspace key. The current situation is that the user
Which is correct, because mindreading equipment is currently classified
CIA property at best (hello echelon!)
> The Linux tty canonical mode is a problem app. Let's fix it.
The Debian people have. There is an official Debian policy which other
vendors adopted on the matter
> we look at glass ttys, we have the Linux console (with standard setup)
> generating ^? for backspace, and xterm generating ^H for backspace.
Your xterm is not following Linux policy - this is a solved problem in
Linuxspace. Debian bit the bullet a few years ago and did the neccessary
deed to make all their terminal emulators and console match.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-23 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-23 21:26 [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour zefram
2001-09-23 21:48 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2001-09-23 22:12 zefram
2001-09-24 0:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-24 2:17 ` zefram
2001-09-24 1:25 ` Linus Torvalds
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2001-09-23 18:12 ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-09-23 2:26 zefram
2001-09-23 20:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-23 20:41 ` Nadav Har'El
2001-09-23 21:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-24 9:22 ` Nadav Har'El
2001-09-23 22:57 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-24 6:45 ` Kai Henningsen
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