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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: |
Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:09:14 -0800 (PST) |
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.