Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 10:21:14 -0800 From: Dave Tweten <tweten@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: backspace now broken Message-ID: <199503041821.KAA03545@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>
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Joerg Wunsch writes: >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). I'm glad you've brought this up. Since forever, I've been a satisfied pccons user, with one infuriating exception. Every time I get a new version of FreeBSD, I have to find, edit, and recompile some dumb file in pccons to make it generate an ASCII BS (Backspace, ^H, \010, 0x08, whatever) for the key labeled (guess what) Backspace! Please don't continue this idiocy! Honesty and simplicity are the best policies! Keys labeled "Backspace" should generate (guess what) Backspace!
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