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

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

2005-05-08 Thread Carlo Florendo
Paul Eggert wrote: 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:

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

2005-05-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:44:53AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: Does this patch also fix the issue of arrow keys wrongly being enabled like a text editor (e.g. during rm -i blah, a user can navigate through the screen.) This is not a bug in coreutils. You can get the same behavior in windows

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

2005-05-08 Thread Stuart Westbury
Yo.. Keen! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 2:06 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Paul Eggert Subject: Re: [Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin] On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:44:53AM

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

2005-05-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:06:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:44:53AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: Does this patch also fix the issue of arrow keys wrongly being enabled like a text editor (e.g. during rm -i blah, a user can navigate through the screen.) This is

[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