Re: edit control character negotiation?

[Bob Braden <[e-mail]>]

 
  *> Having just bumped into it a few times, I've noticed something that telnet
  *> really "should" have a negotiation for.
  *> 
  *> We have a terminal type negotiation, but how about a negotation for what
  *> character should be used for "backspace", "kill line", etc?  Yes, these things
  *> are (sort of) negotiated in LINEMODE, but not really in the same way.  One
  *> would like the client to tell the server "we would like to use Del for
  *> erase-character".  On UNIX systems at least, this could be easily implemented
  *> in both client and server.
  *> 
  *> Perhaps it should be bidirectional, so that a server that knows its system
  *> can only handle ^H can say "if you want to erase a character, you better
  *> send me a ^H".
  *>  
  *> Thoughts?
  *> 

I believe that the intent of the Telnet authors in 1974 (I was present
at most of the meetings) was this:  if a client has a local convention
for erase line and erase character, it should either implement them
locally, or translate the characters into the corresponding Telnet
escape sequences.  So, no negotiation was thought to be logically
necessary.

Bob Braden