From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 6 08:00:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA08974 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:00:40 -0800 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA08962 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:00:16 -0800 Received: from fedora.x.org by expo.x.org id AA06536; Mon, 6 Mar 95 10:59:27 -0500 Received: by fedora.x.org id AA00134; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 10:59:26 -0500 Message-Id: <9503061559.AA00134@fedora.x.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backspace now broken (proposal) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Mar 1995 14:22:55 +0100." Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 10:59:25 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >But having to tell new >> >FreeBSD users that they have to put a 'stty erase ^h' in .login or >> >.profile of *each and every* user of their system is just plain >> >unnecessary complication of affairs. >> Hmm..this can be done by default in default /etc/.cshrc and friends,then >> those who hate ^H to be erase by default can be happy,and ^H will work... >> BTW that's the first thing i even do on my systems after installation.. >> Not only FreeBSD but even SunOS has this problemm... >Yes, it can be done, but that would be plain bogus (IMO). We'd have >to put this in as default, e.g. into /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login. >This is a *default*. Why kludge it in two places if it can be fixed in >one. *And* we'd have to deal with the complaints when people open >xterms without using the -ls option, *and* it wouldn't work in single user >mode. For xterm add: *ttyModes: erase ^h to your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-default/XTerm file if you want it to be a system-wide configuration. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY