On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:51:16AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "Re: Curses Problem in > Detecting Backspace": > > Not intending to start a flame war, but this is against the Debian > > policy, which is also assumed by the "Linux Backspace/Delete > > mini-HOWTO". It specifically says 'Terminals should have stty erase ^?'. > > Do you have any idea why this bizarre (in a different mail I even went as > far as calling it "stupid") policy was instituted?
Not really. I do believe they had some good reasons, mainly being supporting as much hardware as possible in a sensible way. And I do think that having a policy, and following it, is better than not having any, as bizzare as this policy might be. > > > to make backspace work in screen, but other than that, things generally > > do not^H^H^H^H^H^Hwork well (sorry for the stupid joke, I just had to). > > Are Debian users now expected to use "^?" in their jokes as well? :-) :-) -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
