Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:04:45 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> To: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) Cc: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H Message-ID: <199703251404.OAA00250@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:09:02 %2B0100." <199703251309.OAA09331@truk.brandinnovators.com>
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> > Brian Somers wrote:
> > > In reply to Brian Somers who wrote:
> > > *SIGH*, why does this come up again and again??
> > 'cos it doesn't make sense (*stir* *stir* *stir*).
>
> > > BS = BACKSPACE = 0x08
> > > DEL = DELETE = 0x7f
> > > Why on earth should they be reversed contradicting their names ??
> >
> > So that emacs' help system can work. Why would reversing them
> > contradict their names ?
> Because man 7 ascii tells me that:
>
> 010 bs 011 ht 012 nl 013 vt 014 np 015 cr 016 so 017 si
> ..
> 170 x 171 y 172 z 173 { 174 | 175 } 176 ~ 177 del
> ...
>
> which maps nicely to their ^ variants... Please, just because
> their is this one editor which gets it wrong doesn't mean there is
> a reason to change the basic character encoding of the rest of the
> system. Put this (for xemacs, dunno about emacs)
Yep - I guess you're right. So my problem remains: why is the "erase"
character set to ^? by default ?
> (global-set-key '[(control h)] 'delete-backward-char)
> (global-set-key '[(control x) (\h)] 'help-command)
>
> in your .emacs and you're done.
Yep - it'd work the same for emacs.
> Hans
>
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