From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 14:29:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA04661 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:29:49 -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 OAA04653 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:29:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA28880; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:14:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703262214.PAA28880@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:14:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: imp@village.org, andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <14355.859396281@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 26, 97 09:11:21 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 > I find a hard time even believing that this issue is being debated Yet > Again when we have so many more important things to deal with right > now. This entire delete vs backspace discussion is a monsterous waste > of time and energy and I certainly have no intention of changing a > single thing as a result of it, so I have to wonder what the whole > point of this debate even is. The default erase character for the console should be "^H" to match the default console behaviour. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.