Re: [PATCH 21.5] LFD/RET confusion on TTYs

Jerry> I grew up with earthquakes; I can handle them a lot Jerry> better. :-) Hey, I can give earthquakes, and active volcanos, too! Jerry> Yes, I saw those warnings. But then the 'keyboard streams Jerry> are explicitly mentioned all over the place, too. It's Jerry> confusing. Around here, we spell that "Winging code". ;-) I happen to like it once I understand it, but that first step is a doozy. Jerry> Nope. I have no idea. But even if there are, how are you Jerry> going to figure it out? You assume that if in the first few lines you always see CRLF, it's the terminal that's doing it. Surely no user would. However, that requires an online detector, and ours require seek, so ... you don't. Jerry> I don't know that the detectors need fixing. By "fix", I meant "like you fix a cat." }:^} Jerry> Hmmmm... the second column is Unix+EOL, which arguably Jerry> should not be used for keyboards at all. The columns are determined by what capabilities are compiled in. The entries decide what capabilities are actually used. Jerry> Even so, I'd feel better leaving it "raw-text". raw-text = "binary except do evil things with newlines". Ie, raw-text-unix == binary. Jerry> I think you are right about the MSW column, though. That Jerry> should be "binary". But isn't "undecided-unix" right for Jerry> the MULE variants, or do coding systems have nothing to do Jerry> with input methods? (Hopefully that question doesn't Jerry> betray hopeless ignorance on my part!) If the comments about not doing detection on non-seekable streams mean anything here, undecided-unix is (in effect) the same as binary. I say, let's make this explicit, until somebody can authoritatively say what's going on. Ben being silent, and me being some weeks away from enlightment, I would guess ... any other volunteers? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.