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Term mode doesn't set tty erase

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Scott Bell <sctb <at> me.com>
Cc: 5331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5331: Term mode doesn't set tty erase
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:35:20 -0800 (PST)

Scott Bell <sctb <at> me.com> writes:

  > 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 ^?.

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.

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