Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour | Date | Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:05:56 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> One of the long-standing problems preventing Unix from being a > user-friendly desktop OS is its handling of erase keys. There are
Not a kernel space issue
> often two such keys on a keyboard (Backspace and Delete), and which one > works depends very much on context -- many text editing programs will > only accept one of the erase-related characters (^H and ^?), and the
They do different things, they are different keys.
Erase character policy is precisely defined by posix. Fix problem apps. Debian set a policy on this a long time back and have done wonders since - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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