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bug#5331: Term mode doesn't set tty erase
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#5331: Term mode doesn't set tty erase |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:35:20 -0800 (PST) |
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.