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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 1995 09:59:13 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Backspace doesn't work anymore under freebsd-current
Message-ID:  <199503190859.JAA08045@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <2f6b8f4a189e002@maroon.tc.umn.edu> from "pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu" at Mar 18, 95 07:56:25 pm

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As pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know why the backspace key is now defined to send "del"
> by default instead of ^H?  This changed between the 950210-SNAP and
> the current sources.  Someone changed the keyboard mapping so that
> the backspace key now sends del, and you have to use shift-bs, or alt-bs
> (or whatever) to get an ^H out of it.  
> 
> Personally, I would rather have it send ^H, since my "del" key does a fine
> job of sending "del" as input.
> 
> For now I'm setting my own keyboard map via kbdcontrol to set it back
> to the way it was.

Do this.  This started an almost-flame war discussion recently, so
changing anything again is not a good idea...
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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