> Just too bad Debian's policy is to make ^? the erase character - pretty
> much the opposite of what most Unix users used before that. Pretending
Actually, the main argument for chosing this was that this *was* the
traditional behaviour - as seen by vtxxx terminals and traditional Unix
applications like emacs. (If ^H was the traditional erase, how come emacs
wants ^H for help? Doesn't add up.)
MfG Kai
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/