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From: lamy@utegc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: spurious i-search
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 09:53:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 09:53:37 1987
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Seems to me that so much traffic on this list is generated by ^H and ^S fixes
that an "official" solution ought to be available in a future release. Why not

a) have whatever character stty specifies as the delete character act as
   the delete character.
b) Consider the behaviour where help prints messages ignoring the keyboard
   translation to be a bug instead of a feature?
   Ordinary mortals don't want to know...
c) Provide a trivial function call to replace ^S and ^Q
   (xon-xoff-braindamage-workaround control-S-repl control-Q-repl)
   Ordinary mortals should not have to worry about translation tables...

I don't care myself, as the terminals I use have nice big delete and meta key
and are well behaved wrt flow control, but I'm getting sick of having to tell
people to rewire their brains and use DEL or include 10 lines of incantations
in their .emacs ('cause I'm the one they come to see to get them).

Jean-Francois Lamy                     lamy@ai.toronto.edu, lamy@ai.toronto.cdn
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science     lamy%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net
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