From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 01:20:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA26735 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 01:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA26725 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 01:20:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA13052; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 10:20:49 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA25956; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 10:20:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA03721; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 10:16:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607200816.KAA03721@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: pcvt and backspace To: desmo@bandwidth.org (Kenneth J Monville) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 10:16:08 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Kenneth J Monville at "Jul 20, 96 02:14:23 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Kenneth J Monville wrote: > I am currently using the pcvt option in the kernel for a number of > reasons. I am having trouble with backspace working correctly. Most apps You can create an alternate keymap entry in /usr/share/misc/keycap.pcvt, and set the "<--" key so it generates ^H if you like this better. No common agreement could be reached to justify either version, so we decided to leave it as it is. > I have tried stty erase ^? and it still doesn't work. That's strange, since this is how i'm using it all the time. (Actually, it's even the system default, you gotta stty erase ^h manually when using syscons.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)