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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:00:02 -0700
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   bin/359: BS/DEL is still not quite right.
Message-ID:  <199504242000.NAA14803@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:49:22 %2B0200 <199504241949.VAA09486@grumble.grondar.za>

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>Number:         359
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       BS/DEL is still not quite right.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 24 13:00:02 1995
>Originator:     Mark Murray
>Organization:
GTA
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386
>Environment:

CTM 548 - FreeBsd-current

>Description:

(Potential flamewar here :-( :-( )

With the syscons DEL/BS changes a week or 5 ago, it seems that maybe
something got left behind:

My <Backspace> or '<-' key generates BS (0x08 or ^H), but my session is still
assuming that the 'erase' charater is a DEL (0x7F or ^?). Here is the output
from stty -a straight after a login:

speed 115200 baud; 0 rows; 0 columns;
lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe -echok echoke -echonl echoctl
	-echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho pendin -nokerninfo
	-extproc
iflags: -istrip icrnl -inlcr -igncr ixon -ixoff ixany imaxbel ignbrk
	brkint -inpck -ignpar -parmrk
oflags: opost onlcr -oxtabs
cflags: cread cs8 -parenb -parodd hupcl clocal -cstopb -crtscts -mdmbuf
cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
	eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^?; intr = ^C; kill = ^U; lnext = ^V;
	min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q; status = <undef>;
	stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; time = 0; werase = ^W;

I think that the default 'erase' should agree with the definition of the
<Backspace>/<- key.

>How-To-Repeat:

Login and type stty -a, or try to erase/backspace in csh(1).

>Fix:
	
Dunno.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


Mark Murray



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