Re: backspace policy (Re: kernel tty patches)

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:42:53 -0800 (PST),
Ienup Sung <ienup.sung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Also, as I wrote in previous emails to Bruno, I think we are in synch too on
> the actual use of backspace codes/characters in actual erase operation, i.e.,
(snip)

I fully agree with you.

> When there is a backspace character code that is given to kernel's line
> discipline module as an input character to indicate that there has been
> a backspace key press, I think we are in synch in terms of how this,
> a backspace key press (or, in other words, a backspace code), should trigger
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(snip)

I found why we are confused.
I wanted to mean '\b' or '0x08' by the word 'backspace code'.
You wanted to mean 'backspace key press' by the same word.

Thus, we have the same opinion.  We just disagreed with the terminology.
It is easy to stop using the confusing word ('backspace code') and use
more concrete words of '\b' and 'backspace key' instead.

Then it seems that all of us besides Markus agreed...


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