[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: Project status?

[James Carlson]

Glenn Fowler writes:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:29:15 +0200 Bernd Finger wrote:
> > what are the plans for implementing/integrating
> 
> > 1) the avoidance of stty erase <backspace> for certain terminal types (i.e. 
> > backspace will always erase the character left of the cursor)
> 
> what exactly are you asking for here?
> e.g., for terminal type foo I type in
> 	echo bar<backspace>
> and I expect ... but I get ...

I think he's asking to have it echo back "ba" -- the idea is to alias
DEL and BS together, so they do the same thing, and so that you don't
have to struggle with terminal emulators that seem to map these keys
arbitrarily.

I'm not so sure this is really something that belongs in the shell
alone; it would seem to me that it'd be more widely effective as an
ldterm option.

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