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Subject: Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting
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On 2005-03-05 13:34, Ben Munat <bent@munat.com> wrote:
>Chuck Swiger wrote:
>>Ben Munat wrote:
>>> PS: what keymap should I use anyway? (logitech PC keyboard... US
>>>English...)
>>
>>Perhaps /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.emacs.kbd ...?
>
> Wouldn't that be for emacs users?
>
> Sigh... I just want my delete key to work... I got a response a while
> back to edit the keymap and set it in rc.conf (which is how I got off
> on that whole reload rc.conf thing).

When I wrote that you can't reload rc.conf I didn't mean that you need a
reboot to load a new keymap.  These are two different things :-)

> I'll read through the man page for keymap... see if I can make sense
> out of that. Funny thing is, the delete works in vi (usually... I have
> a whole other raft of problems with the way vi is working) but it
> doesn't on the command line. Well, little by little....

The delete key sends ^? when in a cons-25 terminal.  Depending on what
your shell is, this may be remapped to perform whatever you feel suits
you best.  But this is a shell configuration issue.

If you are using /bin/sh, keys like ^? may be remapped in ~/.editrc to
perform whatever you want.  For instance, to remap ^? to delete the
character under the cursor (what most PC users expect to happen when
they press DEL), you can use:

	bind ^? ed-delete-next-char

For the GNU bash shell, similar key remapping may be configured in the
~/.inputrc file:

	"^?": delete-char

For the TCSH shell, you can use "bind" commands in your ~/.tcshrc.

And so on...