Re: [gccsdk] ^H^H^H

In my view this is a bug in GCC SDK. It makes GCC all but useless for porting command line programs—it shouldn't be necessary to change the mode file just for this: Norcroft (unsurprisingly) works correctly—as does GCC on other platforms.

This has been a "feature" for a long time—it's in GCC 4.1.2 too—and affects all task window managers that I've tried on RO 4.39 and 5.21. Isn't it time it was fixed?

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David Gee
Gateshead

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 1. Re: ^H^H^H (Ron)

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:36:29 +1200

From: Ron <gettingchoppy@gmail.com>

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Subject: Re: [gccsdk] ^H^H^H

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In message <6e71c20a55.gavin@wra1th.plus.com>

        Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> wrote:

Running a C program in a Taskwindow. It reads from stdio and

outputs it. The backspace key, instead of backspacing,

produces ^H. I am assuming that this is because the program

is using gets and puts from the stdio library. Is that

right? Are there alternative functions that interpret control

sequences gracefully rather than display control characters with a

^-prefix?

I'll leave the alternative functions to someone who knows them,

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