Re: [Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]

2005-05-08 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alternative opinions (or patches to yesno.c) welcome. In the POSIX locale we don't have any choice; we have to accept any answer with a leading y as yes. See: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html#tag_07_03_06_01 Come to

[Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Relevant clips from this cygwin bug report. When tty settings are weird (I'm not sure whether the bug is in cygwin, xterm, or just bad tty settings that could be reproduced elsewhere), backspace only repositions the cursor on screen, so that the

Re: [Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]

2005-05-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Relevant clips from this cygwin bug report. When tty settings are weird (I'm not sure whether the bug is in cygwin, xterm, or just bad tty settings that could be reproduced elsewhere), backspace only repositions the cursor on screen, so that the actual