Re: xterm display of DEL character

2004-07-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > | From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:34:02 -0400 (EDT) > > | On Wed, 12 May 2004, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | > | > My understanding is that DEL is a control character and t

Re: xterm display of DEL character

2004-07-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:34:02 -0400 (EDT) | On Wed, 12 May 2004, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | | > My understanding is that DEL is a control character and that it should | > be (essentially) ignored when written to a

Re: xterm display of DEL character

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > My understanding is that DEL is a control character and that it should > be (essentially) ignored when written to a screen. > > This is the case for old versions of xterm (e.g. XFree86 4.0.1(139) on > Red Hat Linux 7.0). > > This is not the case for

Re: xterm display of DEL character

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > My understanding is that DEL is a control character and that it should > be (essentially) ignored when written to a screen. > > This is the case for old versions of xterm (e.g. XFree86 4.0.1(139) on > Red Hat Linux 7.0). > > This is not the case for

xterm display of DEL character

2004-05-12 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
My understanding is that DEL is a control character and that it should be (essentially) ignored when written to a screen. This is the case for old versions of xterm (e.g. XFree86 4.0.1(139) on Red Hat Linux 7.0). This is not the case for newer versions (e.g. XFree86 4.2.0(165) on Red Hat Linux 8.