From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 27 14:47:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED37737B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eARMm9c67449; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:48:09 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, rps@merlin.mat.uc.pt Subject: Re: Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro: erase2 patch (was: 4.2-RELEASE ISO image for x86 updated.) Message-ID: <20001127144809.A67395@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <52694.975362925@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <52694.975362925@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:08:45PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:08:45PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > I just received this today and am kind of scratching my head over it. > On one hand, creating an "alias" for a one specific piece of terminal > character mapping seems a hack; I can see the idea behind wanting to > use one of n characters for something like backspacing or line-killing > (^U or ^X for example) and would not frown (as much) on a more general > aliasing feature. On the other hand, I can see that this specific > case (erase) is by far the most significant. Which is why I'm > forwarding this to arch - this is one of those classic > architecture/feature trade-off decisions and I would like to hear more > opinions before deciding which way I'd like to respond to this. This is a very common newbie problem ("Stupid FreeBSD won't let me delete what I've typed, it just prints ^H!"). Commit please! :) Kris --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjoi5KgACgkQWry0BWjoQKXoTgCeNn+hADhsnoOrYTlphOsB0wAu wKsAoKL4inb6IXesYokZf40t2h/G0qAB =/mtv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message