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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:07:14 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic?
Message-ID:  <199603132107.WAA12755@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603131700.SAA19366@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 13, 96 05:57:07 pm

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As Greg Lehey wrote:

> >> 14) Alt-D: delete word forward
> >> 15) Alt-F: forward word
> >> 16) Alt-B: Backward word
> >
> > Please remember, there is no ALT key on a serial console. Please make shure
> > the debugger is usable on such a device ....
> 
> Well, the Alt- commands are "nice to have", not "must have", and most
> serial connections go to another machine, but if you have a suggestion
> for alternative combinations, I'll certainly give them full
> consideration.

A prepended ESC, just like in emacs or other emacs-alike editing modi.
Either syscons as pcvt (optional on PCVT_META_ESC) do even produce
this sequence for Alt-<key>.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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