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Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:43:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: <rbb@rkbloom.net>
To: Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
cc: Ed Holyat <eholyat@OLF.COM>, "'dev@apr.apache.org'" <dev@apr.apache.org>
Subject: Re: backspace in new test suite.
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Ok, \r isn't going to work either.  The problem seems to be when the
output is captured to a file, which is what I image emacs is doing.  I'm
going to keep hunting for a solution for this, but I am not convinced that
I will actually find one that is both portable and works for arbitrary
output streams (file and terminal).

Ryan

On Sun, 23 May 2004 rbb@rkbloom.net wrote:

>
> Hmmmmmm.....  Ok, so \b is really correct, and I would consider this a
> configuration problem more than anything else.   \b is supposed to print a
> backspace character, I believe that your emacs is getting confused,
> because ctrl-H in emacs is the default help command.  So, \b just doesn't
> look like it is portable enough.
>
> But, have no fear, I have another solution, and it is likely to work
> better anyway.  Later tonight or tomorrow (or sometime in the next week,
> depending on if my wife goes into labor soon), I will re-work printing to
> not use \b and instead use \r and re-print the whole line.  This should
> also fix the annoying problem of the spinning bar ending up at the end of
> the previous line after an error.
>
> Ryan
>
> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Noah Misch wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:44:11PM -0400, Ed Holyat wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > the new test suite uses a \b in it's output.  In my bash shell/emacs
> > > environment, this produces some ugly output.
> > >
> > > testatomic.c: |^H/^H-^H|^H\^H-^H|...etc
> > >
> > > using the octal value \008 produces the desired effect.  I believe this is
> > > shell independent and portable.
> >
> > \008 is not a valid octal value.  What character do you mean?
> >
>
>
>