From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 01:01:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E389E16A4CF; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:01:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9745343D62; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:01:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18775D08; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:00:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21453-02; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:00:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-75-250.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.75.250]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23E35CFF; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:00:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42251018.3070102@mac.com> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:00:08 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey References: <20050301194338.3a49611d@ale.varnet.bsd> <20050302002549.GX73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4225093F.8010707@mac.com> <20050302004013.GY73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050302004013.GY73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: Alejandro Pulver cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Using META and DEL keys in console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:01:09 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 19:30:55 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: >>Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>[ ... ] >> >>>>And C-d acts as DEL. >>> >>>That doesn't sound very likely, though I haven't played around with >>>the termcap entries. >> >>C-d is normally bound to delete-char, which performs forward >>deletion. Some people expect the DEL key to behave the same way... > > I get the impression that the original sender (whose attributions you > have removed) knows Emacs fairly well. Sorry, I normally try to leave two levels of attribution. [On the other hand, I did CC: the original poster, and the References: headers ought to suffice for anyone who wants to follow prior postings in the thread.] [ ... ] > Interestingly, I've just discovered that the DELETE key on my cursor > keypad is bound to c-d. So maybe that's what he was expecting. I think so, yes. If you map the Backspace key to DEL and the Delete key to C-d on a standard PC 101/104/whatever-key keyboard, you'll end up with something that does not break Emacs' usage of C-h for help and retains compatibility with the behavior that many people expect the Backspace and Delete keys to have. -- -Chuck