[darcs-devel] [issue727] darcs does not understand backspace

[Josh Wilcox]

I've been meaning to play with hg or git...  if I ever get around to it
I'll report back on their interface.
--J

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Zooko <bugs at darcs.net> wrote:

>
>
> On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Josh Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > New submission from Josh Wilcox <wilcoxjg at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Because darcs does not handle backspace in the expected way when I
> > find it
> > almost impossible to add reasonable patch names.   This is extremely
> > irritating.
>
> There is a way to reconfigure your terminal which can fix this.  You
> can check whether your terminal is configured to send the right (??)
> signal when you hit backspace by doing:
>
> cat > /dev/null
>
> And then hitting [ENTER], and then typing something and then hitting
> backspace.  I'll bet that "cat" does the same thing that "darcs" does
> here -- shows you "^H" or some other weird character instead of
> backspacing.
>
> So in one sense this is your problem -- you ought to reconfigure your
> terminal, but in another sense maybe it is darcs's problem -- darcs
> ought to handle terminals configured in the way yours is.  After all,
> bash is handling it correctly, since you can type "echo blah" and
> then backspace over the blah, and probably vim and most other apps
> that you use are handling it as well, leaving "cat" and "darcs" as
> the odd men out who insist on your reconfiguring your terminal to
> suit them.
>
> Here's my litmus test: are darcs's competitors, hg for example, more
> flexible?  If your terminal is still in the state where "cat" and
> "darcs" emit "^H" instead of backspace, does hg also do?
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>
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