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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H
Date: 24 Mar 1997 17:39:15 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5h41iq$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> ronald@trace.com.tw wrote:
>
>> How can I set it, that the key 'Backspace' will do a backspace
>> rather than type ^H ?
>
> stty erase ^H
>
> (where you can actually hit the Backspace key instead of typing ``^''
> and ``h'', both are equivalent)
>
> The opinions whether backspace (^H, 0x08) or delete (^?, 0x7f) should
> be used as the default rubout character differ vastly between people,
> so it's impossible to provide a default that would satisfy everyone.
What's the argument for BS=^h ?
Surely everyone agrees that since the dawn of time, dumb terminals
have sent ^? for the BS key. A lot of termcaps have the DEL key
grouped with INS, PGUP etc - all with various escape sequences.
Emacs uses ^h for help, laptops put DEL in wierd places making it
difficult to use....
The first thing I do with any terminal emulator is make BS=^?
(if I can - kbdcontrol -l on FreeBSD)
To the original poster: if you install BASH, the problem will
almost go away - it treats both ^? and ^h as rubouts.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !