On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:18:13PM -0500, Dan Jenkins wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote:
> >
> ><... snipped a long, informative post ...>
>
> Thank you for that good explanation. It reminded me of so much I
> had forgotten. (Pushed from my mind might be the better phrase.)
You're welcome. :)
On We
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So really, there are two problems which have lead to the sad state
> of affairs bollixing up the backspace key. One is bad coding
> practices -- programs which assume that ^H is supposed to be
> backspace, or that ^? is, instead of letting the terminal d
Derek Martin wrote:
<... snipped a long, informative post ...>
Thank you for that good explanation. It reminded me of so much I
had forgotten. (Pushed from my mind might be the better phrase.)
Anyway, I think it's much better than it used to be. =8^)
Oh yeah. I haven't needed to write a termcap en
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:51:24PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2005, at 22:02, Ben Scott wrote:
>
> >One thing I've always admired about Unix is that it no other system
> >has more trouble going backwards
>
> It's true - why is this so hard? Is there a design deficit or just a
On Mar 29, 2005, at 22:02, Ben Scott wrote:
One thing I've always admired about Unix is that it no other system
has more trouble going backwards
It's true - why is this so hard? Is there a design deficit or just a
common programming mistake?
I first remember having to put stty erase commands
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:39:06PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If you log in to remote machines frequently, you've problably used
> > screen. If so, you've probably run into cases where backspace doesn't
> > work properly sometimes, even though most
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If you log in to remote machines frequently, you've problably used
>> screen. If so, you've probably run into cases where backspace doesn't
>> work properly sometimes, even though most of the time it does.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:39:06 -0500, Paul Lussi
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you log in to remote machines frequently, you've problably used
> screen. If so, you've probably run into cases where backspace doesn't
> work properly sometimes, even though most of the time it does. I
> finally got annoyed enough that I tracked thi
If you log in to remote machines frequently, you've problably used
screen. If so, you've probably run into cases where backspace doesn't
work properly sometimes, even though most of the time it does. I
finally got annoyed enough that I tracked this down, and I thought I'd
share my solution with y
