From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 16 11:06:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19243 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:06:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19221 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:06:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06488; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:04:22 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA20934; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:05:24 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803161905.LAA20934@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: stty erase ^H ? In-Reply-To: <199803161859.LAA20217@freebie.dcfinc.com> from "Chad R. Larson" at "Mar 16, 98 11:59:09 am" To: chad@dcfinc.com Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:05:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: kline@tera.tera.com, wrsomsky@halcyon.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message