Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 22:46:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: lashley@netcom.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Ctrl-<space> under console Message-ID: <199502272146.WAA27371@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9502271641.AA08037@lashley.slip.netcom.com> from "patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com" at Feb 27, 95 08:41:38 am
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As patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com wrote: > > |> What do you want Ctrl-<space> to generate ?? > > Traditionally, emacs expects it to produce a NUL. (It is -much- easier > to type than CTRL-SHIFT-@ when you want to do a set-mark-command.) It's not only emacs, it's just tradition (any DEC terminal does it this way). I think syscons doesn't try emulating DEC, hence it's not the standard there. As far as i understood syscons keympas, it should be fairly easy to modify the keymap for this, however. Since we are at the subject, i'm always being bothered by this $%&@ing ^H cruft generated by the backspace key. Is there anyone out there who is REALLY HOT to continue this? (Except that i know it's SCO style.) Or can we just go back to the BSD tradition of having this key generate DEL? Our half of the world simply expects the DEL key, and it's evil to always need an stty command. (No, don't tell me that i can use ***control to change this -- i'm speaking of things like boot disks and single-user shells here.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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