Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:54:38 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H Message-ID: <199703251054.LAA10004@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <199703251021.KAA28724@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Mar 25, 97 10:21:57 am"
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In reply to Brian Somers who wrote:
*SIGH*, why does this come up again and again??
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> The DEL key would send whatever the Backspace key doesn't.
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> (I'd prefer BS=^?, DEL=^h)
BS = BACKSPACE = 0x08
DEL = DELETE = 0x7f
Why on earth should they be reversed contradicting their names ??
Now, BSD then has a funny old behavior of having the std erase one
char set to 0x7f, but thats only for hysterical reasons...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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