Suggestion for terminal package maintainers

[Ken Brown]

On 6/3/2009 1:21 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  3 12:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:08:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jun  3 11:57, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> It didn't get lost.  The message is the same.  I implemented the
>>>> behavior of backspace to match the way backspace worked on two
>>>> different linux consoles.  I've now checked a third linux console and
>>>> Alt-Backspace doesn't do anything there either.
>>> It does.  I just checked again and it returns ^[^?.
>> I wasn't claiming that you were mistaken about seeing something.
>> However, I did try to emulate what I saw on my linux systems which is
>> why the code carefully did nothing in the case of Alt-Backspace.
> 
> Uh, I see.  I already feared that might be different between the
> consoles of different Linux systems.

Is it really different, or does this comment from Thomas Wolff earlier 
in the thread explain the discrepancy?

On 6/3/2009 11:23 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> It's the readline function (of bash, cat, ...) 
>> so obviously ^? rubs out the ESC again as it should.

Ken