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Date:      Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:05:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>
To:        chad@dcfinc.com
Cc:        kline@tera.tera.com, wrsomsky@halcyon.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stty erase ^H ?
Message-ID:  <199803161905.LAA20934@athena.tera.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803161859.LAA20217@freebie.dcfinc.com> from "Chad R. Larson" at "Mar 16, 98 11:59:09 am"

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According to Chad R. Larson:
> > 	I'm in favor of making ^H be the default because it is what 
> > 	I've used since the beginning.  As far as I know a 
> > 	backspace defaults to a ^H, and if stty is _not_ this,
> > 	then the stty has to be done in the .*rc/.profile.
> 
> But guys, "backspace" =is= a cntl-h.  Any key labled "Backspace" had
> better emit one of those.  I know some VT220 emulators allow the
> backspace key to be configured for either cntl-h or delete, but that
> seems to me an abomination.
> 
> Now, if you want to change around the mapping of backspace to INTR, or
> of DEL to erase, knock yourself out.  That's the magic of UNIX.
> 

	I'll burn up some bandwidth to say  ``Right on... ''
	--But why remap?  Seriously.


	gary



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