Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 14:42:30 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/407: Odd tset -I behaviour, termcap says xterm kb=^H Message-ID: <9505151842.AA18796@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <9505151809.AA10141@cs.weber.edu> References: <199505141409.AAA28510@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <9505151809.AA10141@cs.weber.edu>
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<<On Mon, 15 May 95 12:09:41 MDT, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) said: > Most X terminals interpret this as a request to send an ASCII Backspace > character (^H, 0x08) to the slave side of the PTY they are using. > You can change this interpretation by modifying your .Xdefaults, like > follows: > xterm*TtyModes: erase ^? > Of course, this isn't recommended, since in principle, the key should > send the ASCII kvalue that its keycap label implies it sends. Of course, not all keyboards are the same. My LK-401 has a keycap labeled ___ / X| \__| and I defy you to state definitively that this symbol implies any ASCII code at all. DEC being typically obnoxious decided to make it send BS; I use this magic to make it send something sensible: xmodmap - << EOF keysym BackSpace = Delete # more stuff goes here EOF -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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