Re: erase/erase2 support

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 08/26/04

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To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org

    At 11:31 AM -0400 8/23/04, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
    >... I went ahead and added support in [ncurses, nvi, and less], but
    >I think we need to decide if the proper course of action right now is
    >to get these changes accepted and finish implementing erase2; if we
    >don't try to support it pervasively, I don't feel it has very good
    >value.

    Fwiw, I would also like to see more programs support erase2. The one
    where I notice it the most is actually /usr/bin/mail...

    >It's a no-brainer to add support to nvi, since it's essentially "ours"
    >now to do what we want with. How many other OSen have erase2 support
    >such that the ncurses and less maintainers will see the value in it?

    I could have sworn that some OS had erase2 when jkh added it, but at
    the moment I can not find an example. Maybe it was just patterned
    after eol2, which shows up in at least linux and solaris. 

    -- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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