From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 16 20:01:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10262 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 20:01:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10203 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 20:01:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id OAA19426; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:01:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma019419; Tue, 17 Mar 98 14:01:01 +1000 Received: from hydra.scitec.com.au (hydra.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.101]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA10529 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:00:42 +1000 Received: from scitec.com.au (saruman.scitec.com.au) by hydra.scitec.com.au with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA298177241; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:00:41 +1100 Message-Id: <350DF56A.7D6257F9@scitec.com.au> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:00:42 +1100 From: John Saunders Organization: SCITEC LIMITED X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stty erase ^H ? References: <28031.890100094@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > This whole discussion is rather pointless in any case. No changes to > the current keymap behavior are planned or will be made. The main problem I've found is backspace in an xterm. The console works fine, but xterm has a mind of it's own when it inits the pty modes. It sets erase to ^? unless you manually override with... XTerm*ttyModes:erase ^H ...in your X resource file (whatever you choose to call it). Cheers. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au (Work) | ,--_|\ | mailto:john@nlc.net.au (Home) | / Oz \ | http://www.nlc.net.au/~john/ | \_,--\_/ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61 2 9428 9563 Fax +61 2 9428 9933 | v | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message