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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