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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: Re: bug#5331: Term mode doesn't set tty erase
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:06:54 -0700

On 2010-01-07, at 2:35 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> 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.

I agree. It seems like a shame that Mac OS relies on
the default emulator (Terminal.app) to perform this
initialization.

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