From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 4 11:02:41 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA06553 for current-outgoing; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 11:02:41 -0800 Received: from irbs.com ([199.182.75.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA06547 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 11:02:38 -0800 Received: (from jc@localhost) by irbs.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA27697 for freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 14:02:21 -0500 From: John Capo Message-Id: <199503041902.OAA27697@irbs.com> Subject: Re: backspace now broken (proposal) To: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-current) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 14:02:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Mar 4, 95 09:15:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1370 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage writes: > > 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. Hold down the CONTROL key and type H if your software is not capable of mapping the hardware to what the modem wants. As most others have said: Backspace key ---> 0x08, ^H Delete key ---> 0x7F, ^? PLEASE!!!!!! > -- > 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 > -- John Capo