From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 15 22:30:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14092 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:30:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA14087 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0yETPl-0003OC-00; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:30:25 -0800 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:30:21 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: "William R. Somsky" cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stty erase ^H ? In-Reply-To: <199803160612.WAA00415.gramarye.wrsomsky@halcyon.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, William R. Somsky wrote: > Since we're getting ready for a release, I'll ask this. Sorry if it's > something that was decided and I missed it. But here goes anyway: > > Wasn't there some discussion at one time about making the default > stty mode be erase ^H (backspace), since that is what our default > console keymapping makes the key that you would normally hit to > do an erase operation, ie, the backspace key actually sends a backspace? It somewhat depends on your terminal. The console sends a ^H when backspace is hit. Some terminals don't even have a backspace, and some user map delete to backspace. But I do believe that ^H is the default for terminals already. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message