From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 13 12:53:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA23338 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:53:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA23333 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:53:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA12707 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:53:41 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA02746 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:52:21 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA21241 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:52:21 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id VAA12403 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:35:47 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603132035.VAA12403@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:35:46 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603131057.LAA25407@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 13, 96 11:54:08 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Greg Lehey wrote: > In addition, I think I'd like to have: > > 14) Alt-D: delete word forward > 15) Alt-F: forward word > 16) Alt-B: Backward word Alt-D is ``ESC D'', right? > > The one problem is the "backspace deletes left" for terminals where > > the cursor left key emits "^H". In these situations, the BS key > > becomes synonymous with the cursor left key and the "delete character > > to left of cursor" function is lost. > > I think that, under these circumstances, I'd opt for the cursor left > function being "lost" (i.e. only available via ^B). Recall that we're > talking console only here, of course, so the difference is moot. Huh? The console can run on a (not known to DDB) serial terminal! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)