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In ldisc's line editing mode, pressing ^U is supposed to erase the current unsent line rather than inserting a literal ^U into the buffer. In fact, when using a non-Telnet backend, it erases the line *and* inserts ^U into the buffer! This happens because it shares a case handler with three other disruptive control characters (^C, ^\, ^Z), which all also clear the line-editing buffer before doing their various actions. But in non-Telnet mode, their actions become literal insertion of themselves, so the combined effect is to erase the line and them self-insert. I'm not 100% convinced that was what I actually meant to do with those characters. But it _certainly_ wasn't what I meant to do with ^U, so that one at least I should fix right now! (cherry picked from commit 5ade8c00479520031b6a507e4db088fca7d82893)
This is the README for PuTTY, a free Windows and Unix Telnet and SSH
client.
PuTTY is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the
simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), run these commands in
the source directory:
cmake .
cmake --build .
Then, to install in the simplest way on Linux or Mac:
cmake --build . --target install
On Unix, pterm would like to be setuid or setgid, as appropriate, to
permit it to write records of user logins to /var/run/utmp and
/var/log/wtmp. (Of course it will not use this privilege for
anything else, and in particular it will drop all privileges before
starting up complex subsystems like GTK.) The cmake install step
doesn't attempt to add these privileges, so if you want user login
recording to work, you should manually ch{own,grp} and chmod the
pterm binary yourself after installation. If you don't do this,
pterm will still work, but not update the user login databases.
Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
`man' pages) is built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the `doc'
subdirectory. If you aren't using one of our source snapshots,
you'll need to do this yourself. Halibut can be found at
<https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
ours.
See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.