Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 08:55:37 -0500 (CDT) From: John Lind <john@starfire.mn.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org Subject: Backspace/DELETE FreeBSD 2.0-950322-SNAP Message-ID: <199504131355.IAA12389@starfire.mn.org>
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Syscons is great -- it is mavelously configurable, robust, and feature-filled. A recent adjustment, however, is causing me some inconvenience. In this SNAP, the behavior of the backspace key changed from ctrl H (0x08) to DEL (0x7f), even though /root/.login still has stty crt erase ^H in it. In fact, I find it a loss of utility to have two keys on the keyboard (BACKSPACE and DELETE) produce the same ASCII code when neither produces ^H. Also, I have set up all my logins on various machines to use ^H for backspace. I have read the man pages for vidcontrol and kbdcontrol and looked in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps, but haven't found anything useful. I have also looked in /etc/sysconfig to see if there might be a clue there. My greatest preference would be to change the behavior back to the earlier way of simply producing ASCII BS on Backspace. My next thought is to dig into syscons.h and syscons.h -- suggestions? John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417
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