From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 15:25:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20058 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA20027 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:25:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA16807 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:24:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA07467; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:14:47 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970326001447.QV50783@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:14:47 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H References: <199703251238.NAA10221@ravenock.cybercity.dk> <199703251409.OAA00279@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703251409.OAA00279@shift.lan.awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mar 25, 1997 14:09:38 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Somers wrote: > I now agree that 0x08 is the right thing to send for a BS, so > we need to have the default erase as 0x08 and remove the stty > from /.profile and /root/.profile (a link anyway). > > Any disagreements (freebsd-hackers) ? Yes. We've been there before, and found that it's so much a matter of personal preference that we cannot agree on anything. I'm certainly not the only one whose entire setup on a bunch of machines is trimmed to ^? as the rubout key. (I normally also map this to the key that is labelled <-- on my keyboard. I don't have keyboards where this key might be labelled `Backspace' anyway. :) Root's profile shouldn't try to touch the rubout setting at all. Hold on, i've just resubmitted an old suggestion to Søren... -- 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. ;-)