Re: [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour

Kai Henningsen
2001-09-24T06:47:42Z

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.)

MfG Kai