Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 24 Sep 2001 08:45:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour |
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nyh@math.technion.ac.il (Nadav Har'El) wrote on 23.09.01 in <20010923234111.A16873@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>:
> Just too bad Debian's policy is to make ^? the erase character - pretty > much the opposite of what most Unix users used before that. Pretending
Actually, the main argument for chosing this was that this *was* the traditional behaviour - as seen by vtxxx terminals and traditional Unix applications like emacs. (If ^H was the traditional erase, how come emacs wants ^H for help? Doesn't add up.)
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