From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 16 09:30:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12141 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:30:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12107 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:30:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04275; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:28:45 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA20271; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:29:48 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803161729.JAA20271@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: stty erase ^H ? In-Reply-To: <199803160612.WAA00415.gramarye.wrsomsky@halcyon.com> from "William R. Somsky" at "Mar 15, 98 10:12:52 pm" To: wrsomsky@halcyon.com (William R. Somsky) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:29:48 -0800 (PST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to William R. Somsky: > Since we're getting ready for a release, I'll ask this. Sorry if it's > something that was decided and I missed it. But here goes anyway: > > Wasn't there some discussion at one time about making the default > stty mode be erase ^H (backspace), since that is what our default > console keymapping makes the key that you would normally hit to > do an erase operation, ie, the backspace key actually sends a backspace? > > I'm in favor of making ^H be the default because it is what I've used since the beginning. As far as I know a backspace defaults to a ^H, and if stty is _not_ this, then the stty has to be done in the .*rc/.profile. gary kline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message