From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 13 13:24:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA25920 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:24:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25907 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA03408 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:21:38 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA21508 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:21:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id WAA12755 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:07:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603132107.WAA12755@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 22:07:14 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603131700.SAA19366@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 13, 96 05:57:07 pm 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: > >> 14) Alt-D: delete word forward > >> 15) Alt-F: forward word > >> 16) Alt-B: Backward word > > > > Please remember, there is no ALT key on a serial console. Please make shure > > the debugger is usable on such a device .... > > Well, the Alt- commands are "nice to have", not "must have", and most > serial connections go to another machine, but if you have a suggestion > for alternative combinations, I'll certainly give them full > consideration. A prepended ESC, just like in emacs or other emacs-alike editing modi. Either syscons as pcvt (optional on PCVT_META_ESC) do even produce this sequence for Alt-. -- 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. ;-)