Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:24:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.com> To: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Keyboard bindings Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960417214859.1368A-100000@boner.mrami.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960417172328.2439J-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Richard Chang wrote:
> Hmmm, so is ^O the only discard character?
No, you use the stty program to set the discard character (or any other
special control characters for that matter). For instance,
$ stty discard ^a
sets the discard character to Control-A,
$ stty discard ^o
sets it to Control-O,
$ stty discard 7
sets it to '7', and
$ stty discard undef
undefines it (after which there is no discard key). To see what other
control characters you can set, do 'stty -a' and look under the "cchars:"
section.
> Also, do you mean that
> you can just hit ^O and then another key and ^O will work correctly?
Well, you hit the discard key and it works correctly. :) If you do the
'stty discard undef', there is no discard key.
> Hmmm, what is discard anyways?
I think at this point you'll just have to play with it to get a feel for
it. :) I can also suggest the stty(1) and termios(4) man pages for terse
but fairly complete explanations of what is going on.
Marc.
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