Why I think FC3 sucks!

[Pasha]

Edward Yang wrote:

> 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.
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> Can you read???????????????? I said:
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> if I set DEL to ASCII DEL

First, there is no need to shout.
Second, please turn off HTML when you post to this list. In Thunderbird 
composition window, select Options/Format/Plain Text.

If you look more closely, you can see that ASCII DEL is also generated 
by backspace. For me this means, that if I set Del to the same setting 
as backspace, it will act the same way as backspace. Also, you may be 
surprised, but originally ASCII DEL (and delete key) acted as backspace. 
I don't remember where it was changed, probably in MS-DOS. Anyway, there 
are a lot of hints telling that you should not touch that setting at 
all. In any case this is not a bug.