From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 10 16:58:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA27392 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 16:58:24 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA27386 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 16:58:23 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA10244; Sat, 4 Mar 95 14:07:50 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503042107.AA10244@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: backspace broken in ctm 0420? To: smace@metal-mail.neosoft.com (Scott Mace) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 95 14:07:49 MST Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503040545.WAA00206@metal.ops.neosoft.com> from "Scott Mace" at Mar 3, 95 10:45:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I just built a kernel with sources from ctm cvs-cur.0420 and it appears > that backspace = del = 0x7f . Shouldn't backspace be 0x08 not 0x7f? Only on computer terminals which are used for editing. I hope to eventully narrow it down to the '0' and '1' keys being the only ones that generate unique keycodes, but I sill have yet to see a clear proposal from anyone regarding bit-stuffing the input stream so we can find character boundries and/or determine end of line. The thing I don't like is that the characters still come out lower case when I turn off caps lock. Making all characters come out the same case regardless of modifier keys is the next logical step in reducing the set of keycodes a newbie must memorize. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.