On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:27:24AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > This raises the question to Taral: do you use a particularly odd shell, or > do you set any kind of non-default settings in your environment that could > possibly relate to the behaviour that you are seeing, while others don't? I use zsh. I noticed the problem when I started using python2, which does not support readline or any kind of special line editing. > I can't remember tweaking any of these terminal emulators, so I wonder > why the (iirc default) behaviours differ? See my summary posted to d-devel. > In particular, the -echok setting that gnome-terminal defaults to, appears > to break input behaviour of shells that rely on sane terminal settings. > IOW why or to what end does gnome-terminal turn off or not turn on some > of the sane terminal features? gnome-pty-helper sets the tty settings from scratch. I think the echok omission was an error. > This implies that xterm is not entirely sane either (-brkint). xterm uses the linux kernel defaults, not the stty sane defaults. > Does it sound very unreasonable to expect from a terminal emulator that > it provides a "sane" terminal environment by default? No. That's why I'd like gnome-pty-helper patched. -- Taral <taral@taral.net> Please use PGP/GPG encryption to send me mail. "Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." -- Florence Ambrose
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