From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 19 01:52:24 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA00889 for current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 01:52:24 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA00875 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 01:52:16 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA27252; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:23:06 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id KAA15150; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:23:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA08045; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 09:59:14 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503190859.JAA08045@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Backspace doesn't work anymore under freebsd-current To: pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 09:59:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <2f6b8f4a189e002@maroon.tc.umn.edu> from "pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu" at Mar 18, 95 07:56:25 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 832 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)