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

[Bernd Finger]

James, all,

James Carlson wrote:
> 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.

Exactly. I would like be able to use the backspace key for erasing one character 
left of the current cursor position without having to execute stty erase <bs> 
before.

Regards,

Bernd

> 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.