Re: Console changes around 1.6.69 (?)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com)
8 Mar 1996 05:22:14 GMT


Followup to: <4hnaqi$vv@freya.yggdrasil.com>
By author: adam@adam.yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I see that the behavior of the Linux console driver changed
> somewhere around 1.3.69 in ways that confuse emacs and the GNU
> readline library. For example, the console no longer automatically
> wraps to next line when you try to write past the rightmost on the
> screen, although this is not the only difference.
>=20

At least on my system (1.3.71) this doesn't happen. emacs works just
fine. I have also monitored the console code closely, although I
believe some people had problems the console switching in .69 and .70.

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