Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 11:49:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@monrif.net> Cc: freebsd-questions mailing list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DEL key acts like BackSpace Message-ID: <20000513114953.I31094@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000512233212.A443@casimirhost.kasby> References: <20000512233212.A443@casimirhost.kasby>
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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
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