Re: [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour

[Alan Cox]

> One of the long-standing problems preventing Unix from being a
> user-friendly desktop OS is its handling of erase keys.  There are

Not a kernel space issue

> often two such keys on a keyboard (Backspace and Delete), and which one
> works depends very much on context -- many text editing programs will
> only accept one of the erase-related characters (^H and ^?), and the

They do different things, they are different keys.

Erase character policy is precisely defined by posix. Fix problem apps. 
Debian set a policy on this a long time back and have done wonders since