From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 19:20:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6EB37B693 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 19:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA31596; Sat, 13 May 2000 11:49:54 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 11:49:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Francesco Casadei Cc: freebsd-questions mailing list Subject: Re: DEL key acts like BackSpace Message-ID: <20000513114953.I31094@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000512233212.A443@casimirhost.kasby> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000512233212.A443@casimirhost.kasby> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 12 May 2000 at 23:32:12 +0200, Francesco Casadei wrote: > Why the DEL key deletes the character before the cursor (just like > BackSpace) instead of deleting the character after the cursor? Because that's its purpose. > Only in Netscape Navigator's location bar DEL deletes the characters > to the right of the cursor. I consider this incorrect. > Nevertheless the assignments for DEL and BS in it.iso.kbd (the > keymap file I use) seem to be correct: > > 014 bs bs del del bs bs del del O > > 083 del '.' '.' '.' '.' '.' boot boot N > ^^^ Seems reasonable. > I have a 105-keys italian keyboard and I use bash 2.03.0(1)-release and > FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE. Remember that command line editing isn't a kernel function. If you're talking about bash, the character for deleting the character to the right of the cursor is ^D (ctrl-D). Look at the man page for the others. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message