From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 17 11:05:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29784 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA29714 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:04:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0yF1eV-0003DD-00; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:03:55 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA07139; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:03:59 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199803171903.MAA07139@harmony.village.org> To: joelh@gnu.org Subject: Re: stty erase ^H ? Cc: wrsomsky@halcyon.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Mar 1998 00:04:56 CST." <199803170604.AAA00906@detlev.UUCP> References: <199803170604.AAA00906@detlev.UUCP> <199803160612.WAA00415.gramarye.wrsomsky@halcyon.com> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:03:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199803170604.AAA00906@detlev.UUCP> Joel Ray Holveck writes: : If there was a discussion, I missed it. This equine expired years ago.... However, for those poeple that want to change the behavior, it is relatively straight forward to hack the keymaps in question. I do this to swap ctrl and caps lock and make the <- key generate DEL (in X I do this via translations for xterm, since motif would delete forward character :-(. I am happy with the status quo in FreeBSD. My dot files cope with it quite well and any push for a change in this area will never happen. Warner P.S. Would there be support for a new, non-default keymap, much like the dvorak, which people can use in their rc.conf files? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message