From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 6 12:14:37 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA17260 for current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 12:14:37 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA17254 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 12:14:35 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA08687; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:13:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:13:26 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503062013.AA08687@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backspace now broken (proposal) In-Reply-To: References: Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> FreeBSD users that they have to put a 'stty erase ^h' in .login or >> .profile of *each and every* user of their system is just plain >> unnecessary complication of affairs. > Hmm..this can be done by default in default /etc/.cshrc and friends,then > those who hate ^H to be erase by default can be happy,and ^H will work... The default environment as provided by the kernel and sh(1) in single-user mode should not require the presence of any dot files for correct operation. For that matter, this should be true in general. People here got it right for 4.3 on a VAXstation; there's no excuse for broken behavior. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant