[1675] in Athena Bugs
(RTPC) Version 6.0R: xterm?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 19 11:29:44 1989
From: <qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 11:29:19 EST
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System type, version: (RTPC) Version 6.0R
System name: soup
What's wrong:
This has been going on for quite some time, but I don't know whether
anyone's every bothered to report it. There are two situations that
should behave the same way and don't:
1. With lineedit off, from the shell prompt, \ followed by a single
backspace prints ^? as it should. A second backspace erases this as
it should. This is the correct behavior.
2. With lineedit either off or on, while running something so that
the shell itself is not deaing with the input and the output,
\ followed by a single backspace prints ^? as it should, but a second
backspace does not erase this. To try this,
% unset lineedit
% \<backspace><backspace>
% sleep 300
\<backspace>\<backspace>
^C
%
What should have happened:
Sitiuation 2 should behave like situation 1.
