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Date:      Mon, 06 Mar 1995 10:59:25 EST
From:      "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: backspace now broken (proposal) 
Message-ID:  <9503061559.AA00134@fedora.x.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Mar 1995 14:22:55 %2B0100." <m0rlckT-0005f9C@dude.pcs.dec.com> 

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>> >But having to tell new
>> >FreeBSD users that they have to put a 'stty erase ^h' in .login or
>> >.profile of *each and every* user of their system is just plain
>> >unnecessary complication of affairs.
>> Hmm..this can be done by default in default /etc/.cshrc and friends,then 
>> those who hate ^H to be erase by default can be happy,and ^H will work...
>> BTW that's the first thing i even do on my systems after installation..
>> Not only FreeBSD but even SunOS has this problemm... 

>Yes, it can be done, but that would be plain bogus (IMO). We'd have
>to put this in as default, e.g. into /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login.
>This is a *default*. Why kludge it in two places if it can be fixed in 
>one.  *And* we'd have to deal with the complaints when people open 
>xterms without using the -ls option, *and* it wouldn't work in single user
>mode.

For xterm add:

   *ttyModes: erase ^h

to your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-default/XTerm file if you want it to
be a system-wide configuration.

--

Kaleb KEITHLEY



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