From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 20:26: 7 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 29A4C37B871 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 20:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA02167; Sun, 14 May 2000 12:54:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 12:54:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: gh , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: DEL key acts like BackSpace Message-ID: <20000514125427.N847@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000512233212.A443@casimirhost.kasby> <20000513114953.I31094@freebie.lemis.com> <035c01bfbc9f$582bca30$b864aad0@kickme> <20000514110301.H847@freebie.lemis.com> <20000514075525.A24154@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000514075525.A24154@physics.iisc.ernet.in> 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 Sunday, 14 May 2000 at 7:55:25 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Greg Lehey said on May 14, 2000 at 11:03:02: >> On Saturday, 13 May 2000 at 0:51:54 -0500, gh wrote: >> >> 4. Meanwhile, in Washington State, a company reinvented everything >> and used completely different characters from what other people >> were using. That's their choice, of course, but it doesn't mean >> anybody else is going to follow them, especially when most of >> their choices appear to be suboptimal. > > I sympathise with that point of view, but I don't see that in this > case their choice is worse than the original one. I didn't say that. > These days it's become standard, even on commercial unix machines. I haven't seen any UNIX machine which has adopted that. What are you referring to? > If there's a good intrinsic reason to retain the old choice of del, > that's different, but it doesn't look like there's anything > "incorrect" and it would make it easier for new users to follow the > common current standards -- especially as FreeBSD mostly runs on > modern machines with both a del key and a backspace key on its > keyboards. Well, you're free to do what you want with software you write. But UNIX doesn't have the concept of editing at that level, so it's difficult to find anywhere to use it. If you prefer it in, say, Emacs, there's nothing to stop you changing it. Greg -- 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