From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 20:30:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA13338 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:30:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA13333 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA26928; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:17:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703260417.VAA26928@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:17:06 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970326012336.IK14554@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 26, 97 01:23:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.