Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:29:48 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com> To: wrsomsky@halcyon.com (William R. Somsky) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stty erase ^H ? Message-ID: <199803161729.JAA20271@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199803160612.WAA00415.gramarye.wrsomsky@halcyon.com> from "William R. Somsky" at "Mar 15, 98 10:12:52 pm"
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According to William R. Somsky: > Since we're getting ready for a release, I'll ask this. Sorry if it's > something that was decided and I missed it. But here goes anyway: > > Wasn't there some discussion at one time about making the default > stty mode be erase ^H (backspace), since that is what our default > console keymapping makes the key that you would normally hit to > do an erase operation, ie, the backspace key actually sends a backspace? > > 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. gary kline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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