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Date:      Sat,  4 Mar 1995 22:04:17 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: backspace now broken (proposal)
Message-ID:  <yGncBMliP5@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199503041835.KAA01066@corbin.Root.COM>; from David Greenman at Sat, 04 Mar 1995 10:35:52 -0800
References:  <199503041835.KAA01066@corbin.Root.COM>

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In message <199503041835.KAA01066@corbin.Root.COM> David Greenman
    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?

>   No - I didn't say that. I said that backspace should be backspace (8) and
>that delete should be delete (0x7f). I don't much care about the keypad delete
>as I don't use it - but the delete below insert I use a lot...and this needs
>to generate 0x7f.

Ok, maybe following scheme will fit:

Backspace -> ^H
Grey Keypad Delete -> 0x7F
Numeric Keypad Del (if NumLock off) -> ESC [ K

any objections?
-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
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RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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