Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:42:44 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H Message-ID: <E0w9aFA-0003QO-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:56:27 GMT." <199703251456.OAA00459@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> References: <199703251456.OAA00459@shift.lan.awfulhak.org>
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Personally on my systems I fix this in xterm and the like by having the BackSpace keysym generate a DEL character. I do this for emacs and always stty erase ^? in my .cshrc files. I do this so that the *STUPID* Motif binaries work w/o me having to do stupid things for them. I use this solution in preference to the xmodmap solution because I generally only care about this working in X terms. Emcas groks BackSpace when run under X, so I'm happy with that. Since I can't run a text console due to the old Sun monitor I use, I don't bother much with making sure that is sane. Does this make sense for system defaults? Likely not given where BSD has been. What I have works for me, but would likely confuse people. As you can tell, I'm from the DEL is delete-backward-character camp. Must be related to that bumper sticker on my car: "VMS Forever." :-) Warner
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