SOURCES (AC-branch): bashrc - removed stty erase setting to `tput ...

[Tomasz Pala]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 00:02:10 +0200, GoTaR wrote:

> Hmmm... if I understand Alan Cox correctly, we shall do this. So now
> there are two questions:
> 1. any objections?

Let's go further - Debian has it's policy, but _they didn't change [*]
xterm-color terminfo_, so remotely it's broken (blues, what were you
talking about problems with Debian/Ubuntu? ;>). Instead they created
xterm-debian, but it's not known on other systems (hurray for idiots).

http://log.antiflux.org/grant/2004/03/29/backspace-delete
http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/linux/debiantips.html
http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html

They all (just like Debian, Cox, Torvalds) suggest using '^?'. It's good
idea but only if we change kbs in terminfo (well, kdch1 is changed
anyway, khome and kend added, what a fucking mess...), otherwise any
terminfo bindings (ncurses) will fail. Unfortunatelly we cannot do this.

> 2. what about that bloody stty propagation?

I'll stick with that anyway. It guarantees, that every application using
termios will work.

So here comes the most important question: we adapt to Debian (supported
by authorities) or xterm's specification? In case of khome/kend we had
chosen (well, kde-konsole has forced us) to follow xterm against Debian.

I'm still waiting for test cases what was wrong with my fix!

[*] let me guess, for interoperability with other systems...

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PS. someone has said, that with my fix screen doesn't work properly,
yeah?

$ tail -n3 /etc/screenrc
# On Debian GNU/Linux, `<--' (Backspace key) should send char `\177':
bindkey -k kb stuff "\177"


So if there won't be any serious discussion and detailed scenarios I'm
going to restore my fix and you will have to fix YOUR BROKEN programs.

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