* Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2010-11-28 17:05]:
On 25 October 2010 21:25, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote:
>My very most favourite recent addition is
> bind -x ’“\C-l”: clear’
>which ultimately goes all the way back to how stupidly
>terminals were bolted onto the side of Unix. Excuse me while
>I bang my head on this desk.
A hack to duplicate an obsolete hack taking advantage of
a quirk of obscure non-standard terminal escape sequences is
a bug in UNIX?
It is not a bug. It is the place we have arrived after years of
walking down the path that followed the wrong direction chosen
from the start. I am not complaining about the hack itself.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
