Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 15:52:01 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, mark@grunt.grondar.za Subject: Re: backspace now broken Message-ID: <199503041352.PAA11129@grunt.grondar.za>
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> I agree very strongly with Rod in this debate. > > The PC keyboard has two keys: "<-" and "Delete". When I walk up to such > a keyboard, I expect "<-" to generate 0x8 and "Delete" to generate 0x3f. (er, 0x7f??) > This is true regardless of what I have expected various VT100-like > keyboards on Un*x systems to do during the past 20 years. > > Please restore the old behavior. I also agree with this. But _PUHLEEEZE_ make the default state of the console (as reported by stty) agree with this! Having a key whose default (brain) behaviour is not the default (action) behaviour is a big pain. :-) M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200
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