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Re: 9.2 prompt window does not backspace across line break when composing a zwrite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jun 17 17:41:32 2003
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "17 Jun 2003 17:30:02 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:41:29 -0400
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:21, Bill Cattey wrote:
> > Am I remembering wrongly?
> > When one does a zwrite, and has a long line that wraps to the next line
> > in the terminal wondow, one and starts hitting backspace, and deleting
> > characters across the beginning of the line, didn't it used to back up
> > to the end of the previously typed characters?
>
> I don't think that's ever been the case. You can press C-r to redisplay
> the current line, though.
>
> (And, your bug reports should always mention what platform you saw the
> relevant behavior on.)
The behavior Bill recalls has occured at some times in the past. FWIW,
backspace DWIW over a newline with the combination xterm/tcsh/9.2 sun
for me.
Jonathon
