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: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 01:03:15 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15lJDP-0000qe-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15lHUG-0001N5-00@bowl.fysh.org> from "zefram@fysh.org" at Sep 23, 2001 11:12:32 PM
> proposed change would have broken the line editor for many of us.
> As it is, ZLE just works, with no extra effort, on any text terminal,
> and we get no complaints.
And bash treats the two delete keys differently - something a similarly
religious group believe to be the right thing to do
> pipes to talk to the user's actual terminal. We can't change that,
> and the result is that Unix systems have to handle whatever terminal
> type the user is using.
Which is why they have termcap, terminfo, and x keyboard maps. The kernel
is not there to cover up for usermode programmers inability to get
things right. It has enough to do covering up for the hardware folk
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-23 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-23 22:12 [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour zefram
2001-09-24 0:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-09-24 2:17 ` zefram
2001-09-24 5:19 ` [PATCH] Enable SSE on K7's with old/broken BIOS's John Clemens
2001-09-24 12:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-24 1:25 ` [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour Linus Torvalds
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2001-09-23 21:26 zefram
2001-09-23 21:48 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <mailman.1001266380.13783.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
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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