erase/erase2 support

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 11:31 AM -0400 8/23/04, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
>...   I went ahead and added support in [ncurses, nvi, and less], but
>I think we need to decide if the proper course of action right now is
>to get these changes accepted and finish implementing erase2; if we
>don't try to support it pervasively, I don't feel it has very good
>value.

Fwiw, I would also like to see more programs support erase2.  The one
where I notice it the most is actually /usr/bin/mail...

>It's a no-brainer to add support to nvi, since it's essentially "ours"
>now to do what we want with.  How many other OSen have erase2 support
>such that the ncurses and less maintainers will see the value in it?

I could have sworn that some OS had erase2 when jkh added it, but at
the moment I can not find an example.  Maybe it was just patterned
after eol2, which shows up in at least linux and solaris.

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