Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:17:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H Message-ID: <199703260417.VAA26928@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <19970326012336.IK14554@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 26, 97 01:23:36 am
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> > This is a justification for changing EMACS, not a justification for > > making the key send something other than what its keycap claims it > > sends. > > The keycap on all my keyboards claims it to be <---, so what ASCII > code does this translate into, please? :-) > > Don't be that American-centric! I'm not "American-centic", I'm UNIX-centric. BS-as-DEL is DEC VTxxx-centric, or more generally, ANSI 3.64-centric, and has it's origins, as EMACS had it's origins, on old DEC hardware. Besides, it's not my fault you bought a defective keyboard. ;-) What's German for "Backspace"? Are you saying thre are no German keyboards with "Backspace" implied for the key? I suppose we could always "appeal to authority" and take the IBM PC keymaps for international users, as specified by IBM... but of course, then I win again, and it's Backspace. 8-). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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