Anybody want to fix ash's backspace line wrap?
Cathey, Jim
jcathey at ciena.com
Fri May 15 23:51:31 UTC 2009
>Nothing, there's about 800 esoteric TERM values and
>there's no point playing a guessing game.
Not surprised, that's some mighty ugly territory.
>By this logic, we don't need the "backspace up to previous line"
>logic at all. You can just hit ctrl-L when you do that.
No, because 1) backspaces don't count as all that exceptional,
and 2) there are things such as ^A/^B. The full functionality
of ^L can't be done without also solving the BS-BOL problem,
which is why we're here in the first place.
-- Jim
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