From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 4 10:24:30 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA05434 for current-outgoing; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 10:24:30 -0800 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA05428 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 10:24:27 -0800 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA27996 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Sat, 4 Mar 1995 21:18:19 +0300 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Sat, 4 Mar 95 21:18:18 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA01267; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 21:15:57 +0300 To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: current@FreeBSD.org References: <199503041717.JAA01010@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: <199503041717.JAA01010@corbin.Root.COM>; from David Greenman at Sat, 04 Mar 1995 09:17:03 -0800 Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 21:15:57 +0300 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.32 FreeBSD] From: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: backspace now broken (proposal) Lines: 22 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1042 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199503041717.JAA01010@corbin.Root.COM> David Greenman writes: >>Grey Delete (near Insert and such) -> ESC [ K >... >>Few words about Grey Delete: many years of PC tradition DOS/Windows/OS-2/etc. > This would really confuse people. It would especially mess up my own use of >the key. It needs to stay 'delete'. I remember from your prev message (correct me if it isn't right) that you have Delete key above Backspace key. I mean _another_ Delete, under Insert key. Did them produce different keycodes for you or just the same? BTW, yet one argument for Backspace==^H: all modems require ^H to edit command line, some of them have it like programmable char, but some of them not, so 0x7F becomes real pain for all dialout users. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849