Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:09:02 +0100 (MET) From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) To: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H Message-ID: <199703251309.OAA09331@truk.brandinnovators.com> In-Reply-To: <199703251211.MAA29866@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Mar 25, 97 12:11:25 pm"
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> Brian Somers wrote:
> > In reply to Brian Somers who wrote:
> > *SIGH*, why does this come up again and again??
> 'cos it doesn't make sense (*stir* *stir* *stir*).
> > BS = BACKSPACE = 0x08
> > DEL = DELETE = 0x7f
> > Why on earth should they be reversed contradicting their names ??
>
> So that emacs' help system can work. Why would reversing them
> contradict their names ?
Because man 7 ascii tells me that:
010 bs 011 ht 012 nl 013 vt 014 np 015 cr 016 so 017 si
..
170 x 171 y 172 z 173 { 174 | 175 } 176 ~ 177 del
...
which maps nicely to their ^ variants... Please, just because
their is this one editor which gets it wrong doesn't mean there is
a reason to change the basic character encoding of the rest of the
system. Put this (for xemacs, dunno about emacs)
(global-set-key '[(control h)] 'delete-backward-char)
(global-set-key '[(control x) (\h)] 'help-command)
in your .emacs and you're done.
Hans
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