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Term mode doesn't set tty erase

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From: Scott Bell <sctb <at> me.com>
To: 5331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5331: Term mode doesn't set tty erase
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:14:29 -0700

On 2010-01-07, at 1:27 AM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> Scott Bell <sctb <at> 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 ^?.

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