Re: Fix del key patch for Gnome-Terminal
- From: Tomas Ogren <stric ing umu se>
- To: Alan Shutko <ats acm org>
- Cc: gnome-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Fix del key patch for Gnome-Terminal
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 22:38:29 +0200
On 15 May, 2000 - Alan Shutko sent me these 0.9K bytes:
> Terminals handle backspace and delete (and function keys and a bunch
> of other keys) a lot differently than X applications. One problem
> with this thing in particular is that there's no clear standard as to
> what the Delete key should send on a terminal.
"Standards are good. Everyone should have one."
As long as you can have the possibility to change the behaviour, I
pretty much think that whatever you choose as default will be wrong in
most cases 8)
/Tomas
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Tomas Ögren, stric@ing.umu.se, http://www.ing.umu.se/~stric/
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