From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Scott Bell <sctb@me.com>
Cc: 5331@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5331: Term mode doesn't set tty erase
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:09:14 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001081909.o08J9EC3017862@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6CE7E79E-7064-4D14-8946-44B568EC8C16@me.com> (Scott Bell's message of "Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:06:54 -0700")
Scott Bell <sctb@me.com> writes:
> On 2010-01-07, at 2:35 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>
> > Scott Bell <sctb@me.com> writes:
> >
> >> On 2010-01-07, at 1:27 AM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> >>
> >>> Scott Bell <sctb@me.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>> It seems like the least surprising thing would be to define
> >>>> erase to ^? so that most programs will behave as expected
> >>>> when the DEL key is typed.
> >>>
> >>> I can't reproduce this on GNU/Linux and Solaris.
> >>> This is probably a Mac OS X problem which not too many people here have
> >>> access to...
> >>> Do you get the same results with /bin/tcsh?
> >>
> >> It looks like tcsh is the only one where erase
> >> is defined:
> >>
> >> bash: <undef>
> >> zsh: <undef>
> >> tcsh: ^?
> >> ksh: <undef>
> >>
> >> When these shells are launched using Terminal.app
> >> (the terminal emulator that ships with Mac OS), erase
> >> is always bound to ^?.
> >
> > term.el does not do anything special for tcsh, so because it works
> > there, it's probably a problem in the initialization of the other
> > shells, not in term.el.
>
> I agree. It seems like a shame that Mac OS relies on
> the default emulator (Terminal.app) to perform this
> initialization.
Not sure what you mean...
It's probably due to buggy initialization for those shells, or because
they get confused about TERM value used by term.el: eterm-color.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-08 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-06 23:54 bug#5331: Term mode doesn't set tty erase Scott Bell
2010-01-07 8:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-01-07 16:14 ` Scott Bell
2010-01-07 21:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-01-08 17:06 ` Scott Bell
2010-01-08 19:09 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2010-01-08 19:23 ` Scott Bell
2016-08-04 1:50 ` Andrew Hyatt
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