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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:12:37 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: erase/erase2 support
Message-ID:  <200408311712.37221.peter@wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040823153126.GB77326@green.homeunix.org>
References:  <20040823153126.GB77326@green.homeunix.org>

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On Monday 23 August 2004 08:31 am, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> After jkh added basic erase/erase2 support a while back, I was
> wondering why it didn't really seem to matter.  It seems that just
> about nothing takes into account the possibility of erase2 (VERASE2)
> existing, so I took a look and found the three most noticeable
> offenders (ncurses, nvi, and less) are all completely orthogonal.  I
> went ahead and added support in all three, but I think we need to
> decide if the proper course of action right now is to get these
> changes accepted and finish implementing erase2; if we don't try to
> support it pervasively, I don't feel it has very good value.
>
> It's a no-brainer to add support to nvi, since it's essentially
> "ours" now to do what we want with.  How many other OSen have erase2
> support such that the ncurses and less maintainers will see the value
> in it?
>
> See: http://green.homeunix.org/~green/erase2.patch

My $0.02 worth: I'm all for it.
-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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