Re: rxvt backspace still broken
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca> writes:
> - Why don't rxvt and xterm set the 'stty' settings on their pty's properly
> before they run the shell? (As long as rxvt does the auto-guessing stuff,
> I support we're okay also. However, I can't really see how guessing from
> a possibly-uninitialized randomly-set pty is going to help much.)
Actually xterm can do this. Look at the -tm option and the ttyModes
resource.
A large part of the time, rxvt is not started from a terminal but is
started by a script or by the window manager. In those cases, it will
use ^?, just like the Linux console. With the new BackSpace/Delete
policy, any pty from which rxvt is started will have ^? as the erase
terminal setting, unless the user has a good reason (hopefully) to change
it herself. Remember that the new pty inherits the old pty's terminal
settings. When erase has been changed to ^H, rxvt will follow suit.
I think that this is acceptable behavior.
Brian
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