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Re: Suggestion for terminal package maintainers
On Jun 3 12:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:08:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jun 3 11:57, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>It didn't get lost. The message is the same. I implemented the
> >>behavior of backspace to match the way backspace worked on two
> >>different linux consoles. I've now checked a third linux console and
> >>Alt-Backspace doesn't do anything there either.
> >
> >It does. I just checked again and it returns ^[^?.
>
> I wasn't claiming that you were mistaken about seeing something.
> However, I did try to emulate what I saw on my linux systems which is
> why the code carefully did nothing in the case of Alt-Backspace.
Uh, I see. I already feared that might be different between the
consoles of different Linux systems. Programming terminal emulation is
a thankless job.
Corinna
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