From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 8 09:39:29 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA21136 for current-outgoing; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 09:39:29 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA21108 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 09:38:44 -0800 Received: from tartufo.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AB06927; Wed, 8 Mar 95 06:31:19 -0800 Received: by tartufo.pcs.dec.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Wed, 8 Mar 95 15:26 MEZ Message-Id: Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 15:29 MEZ From: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com (Michael Elbel) To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backspace now broken (proposal) Newsgroups: pcs.freebsd.current References: <199503071243.WAA15787@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <9503071651.AA24799@cs.weber.edu> Reply-To: me@FreeBSD.org Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In pcs.freebsd.current you write: > I don't think CERASE should change, only the default erase character > for the console. Changing it centrally would annoy anyone who logs > in from somewhere else end depends on the current default. You mean we should make things difficult for people using their PC directly because *some* people trying to access machines remotely might not find their used environment? Great, I'd like to have CERASE be set to 0153 because that's what my fuzznuts-3.45 work- station generates and I log into my FreeBSD box from there every now and then. Sorry, but this is as if a car manufacturer would keep putting clutch pedals into their cars with automatic transmission because someone used to drive stick-shift might miss it. No, Sir, consistency in the native environment, please. Anybody accessing *any* machine remotely from a different type of system has to take into account that certain defaults might be different. I could have argued that I'd like CERASE to be 010 even if the Backspace key generated 0177 because I use this NCD X-Terminal that has a BS in the default location per default. Michael-- Michael Elbel, Digital-PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@FreeBSD.org Fermentation fault (coors dumped)