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Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised repo
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Dan Nicolaescu |
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Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]] |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:06:21 -0700 |
address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Well, that's a rat hole that I don't think we want to get into. Not at
> > this point in the release cycle. If users show that some features are
> > required by real applications to run correctly, then we can consider
> > it.
>
> The reporter specifically mentioned busybox command line editing.
Where? The message that I was CCed on only mentioned "echo".
> We cannot expect embedded systems to rely on termcap/terminfo.
> Rather they will issue hardcoded VT100 escape sequences - like
> ESC [ J, and expect the terminal emulator to DTRT...
>
> I've tested the 'echo' example with both xterm and minicom (which I
> use with embedded systems). Both behave identically - for ESC [ J
> and for ESC [ 1 J -- and in accordance with the reporter's expectations
> for a "true" VT100 terminal.
>
> So you may claim that the behaviour is "undefined" - but practical
> tests shows "consistent" behaviour, different from what Emacs term
> does.
>
> IMO, we should fix term to behave like other VT100 emulators.
> The current behaviour is clearly broken -- besides, fixing this
> doesn't change the semantics of the only case where it was defined
> before.
I will look at that after the release. I don't think the proposed fix
is correct and I don't have time to deal with it now.
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Chong Yidong, 2007/03/21
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/03/21
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Chong Yidong, 2007/03/21
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/03/21
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Miles Bader, 2007/03/21
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/03/21
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Miles Bader, 2007/03/21
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/03/22
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Miles Bader, 2007/03/22
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Kim F. Storm, 2007/03/22
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]],
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Kim F. Storm, 2007/03/22
Re: address@hidden: ansi-term \e[J causes spurious newline [revised report]], Richard Stallman, 2007/03/22