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Re: Suggestion for terminal package maintainers


On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 05:33:27PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun  2 10:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:48:51PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Jun  1 17:03, Ken Brown wrote:
>> >> The Cygwin console, after some changes made this past weekend, now uses  
>> >> ^? as the default erase character, and this is what is sent by the  
>> >> backspace key instead of ^H  
>> >> [...]
>> >
>> >What makes me a bit concerned about this change is that, while we can
>> >change Cygwin's terminfo and termcap files, we can't do that for
>> >existing non-Cygwin installations.  Is it really safe to change the BS
>> >key to ^? now that the "cygwin" terminal type is known to return ^H for
>> >so many years?
>> 
>> Yes, many Cygwin programs will have CTRL-H hard-coded into them
>> currently.
>> 
>> However, I assume that every linux distribution had to go through something
>> like this at some point.  The CTRL-H thing always ends up impacting me
>> in strange ways.  I don't know yet if the ^? change will impact me in new
>> exciting ways, though.
>
>It probably will.  I know what you mean.  I'm under the impression to
>jump through the ^H/^? hoop every other year.
>
>> I just thought that since 1.7.x is supposed to be a major change this would
>> be the time to move towards more compliance with linux.
>
>Maybe it is, that's why I'm asking.  But, if we do that, shouldn't
>Ctrl-Backspace return ^H as in xterm?  So far the Cygwin console
>returned ^H without and ^? with Ctrl, now it returns ^? in both
>variations.

IMO, cygwin's console == linux console.  On two of my systems (Fedora
and Gentoo) CTRL-Backspace returns Backspace on the console.  Now that
I'm at work, I see that CTRL-Backspace returns ^H on my Ubuntu system.
But, so far, the CTRL-Backspace == Backspace contingent is winning.

cgf


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