On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:57:43PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> In OpenBSD, the erase character is ^?
>
> ^H is accepted in a few places, like here (because of CTRL_H) but
> it is absolutely not the canonical tty 'character erase' character,
> which is implied in your text by placing it next to
In OpenBSD, the erase character is ^?
^H is accepted in a few places, like here (because of CTRL_H) but
it is absolutely not the canonical tty 'character erase' character,
which is implied in your text by placing it next to kill and the
canonical tty werase default ^U
It was vague, and I guess
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 06:33:30PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > +character erase (^H) and line kill (^U) characters
>
> ^H is wrong
How so? It is currently hardcoded as such in engine.c:cmd_keyboard():
1188 switch (ch) {
1189 case KEY_ENTER:
1190 case 0x0a:
1191
> +character erase (^H) and line kill (^U) characters
^H is wrong
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 07:13:30AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> how will people be able to find this if we don;t document it? from a
> brief skim of docs which may hold answers, i still can;t find where
> these values are documented.
Fair point, I removed them because they imply that systat
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 05:49:43AM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> The manual's wording is untouched since import in 1995, engine.c however
> came to be in 2008 as "New display engine for systat" from canacar.
>
> While characte erase (^h) works, word erase (^w) is not implemented and
> line kill
