Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 10:35:12 -0800 From: Dave Tweten <tweten@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: backspace now broken Message-ID: <199503041835.KAA03581@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>
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Joerg Wunsch writes: >... people mostly don't expect that key to generate any particular >code (why should they bother with any numerical codes?), they simply >expect it to delete something (instead of printing ^H when pressing >it). On the contrary, since the original IBM PC keyboard, I have never used one that doesn't have both "<--" and either "Backspace" or "Back Space" printed on it. >SysV's tend to use erase=^H, yes, but don't forget: they also use >intr=^? -- so do you wanna change this, too? (But then again, that's >the reason why they map the big grey key to ^H, since their users also >use it to erase text.) None of the above matters a bit to the issue of honest character code generation. Choose what you want. That's what .cshrc or .prolog and stty are for. Continuing to generate a code different from the name on the key only confuses people trying to set up stty and other code-function mappings.
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