Why I think FC3 sucks!

Edward Yang neo_in_matrix at fastmail.fm
Thu Jan 27 12:30:50 UTC 2005


Pasha wrote:

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>>>> 5. I am a newbie on Linux, but I already find a few bugs. For 
>>>> example, in gnome-termial, if I set DEL to ASCII DEL in the profile 
>>>> settings, it actualy acts like BACKSPACE. This bug may be specific 
>>>> only to gnome, but since it's bundled with FC3, so I attribute the 
>>>> problem to FC3. It's quite reasonable.
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>>> Never had such problem with any version of linux i tried. Either 
>>> stop tweaking options you don't understand or (again) it is an 
>>> emulator that needs tweaking. BTW, in my terminal, backspace is 
>>> configured to generate ASCII DEL, and del to escape sequence and I 
>>> never changed this. So, you probably just configured del to be a 
>>> backspace.
>>>
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>> What do you define the word 'bug' in software world? In my 
>> dictionary, bug at least means one thing - it does not work as it 
>> should to work. Your above comment is like saying - that DEL option 
>> is the ears of a deaf, don't use it!
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> Where is the bug here? You configure DEL to be BACKSPACE and complain 
> that it generates BACKSPACE. Change your setting to default and it 
> will work as you expect it to work. This option is probably for 
> compatibility with some terminals, where DEL works as backspace. If 
> you don't want it to act that way, don't configure it so.
>
Can you read???????????????? I said:

if I set DEL to ASCII DEL
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