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

[Jan Rekorajski]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005, Tomasz Pala wrote:

> 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.

We had it working some time in the past, I try digging in the depths of
out CVS. 

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

I'm getting ^? instead of erased character. Scenario:

a = host without stty erase set
b = host with stty erase in bashrc

start X on a
run xterm
ssh to b
run vim, write something, try backspace

> 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.

Don't do it, you'll end up fixing whole world.

Janek
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