From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 3 23:53:35 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA18472 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 23:53:35 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA18466 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 23:53:30 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA16245; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 08:50:55 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id IAA00817 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 08:50:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA02583 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 08:09:05 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503040709.IAA02583@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: backspace now broken To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 08:09:04 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199503040332.OAA21365@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 4, 95 02:32:29 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 809 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > The backspace key is now mapped to ^? by default, breaking 3 years of > 386BSD-FreeBSD tradition and 13 years of tradition. I disagree. It breaks less than one year of FreeBSD tradition (where it bothered several people in the meantime). FreeBSD switched to syscons as default console driver with version 1.1.5.1 (June '94). The previous default driver pccons, as well as pcvt used ^? as delete character all the time, and that's also what is our default terminal setting (i.e., you'll need an explicit stty for everything else). Btw., BS used to give you a ^H (and does now also for syscons), as well as H. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)