Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 8:30:16 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD) Subject: Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic? Message-ID: <199603140733.IAA22984@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199603132035.VAA12403@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from "J Wunsch" at Mar 13, 96 9:35 pm
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> As Greg Lehey wrote: > >> In addition, I think I'd like to have: >> >> 14) Alt-D: delete word forward >> 15) Alt-F: forward word >> 16) Alt-B: Backward word > > Alt-D is ``ESC D'', right? No, it's M-D. You can usually simulate it with ESC-D, but it's not the same thing. Emacs on serial terminals used to accept a character with bit 7 set as M-<character>, and that's what it did (I think, I'm on thin ice here) with the ESC prefix. Nowadays, with an X interface, it handles things differently. >>> The one problem is the "backspace deletes left" for terminals where >>> the cursor left key emits "^H". In these situations, the BS key >>> becomes synonymous with the cursor left key and the "delete character >>> to left of cursor" function is lost. >> >> I think that, under these circumstances, I'd opt for the cursor left >> function being "lost" (i.e. only available via ^B). Recall that we're >> talking console only here, of course, so the difference is moot. > > Huh? The console can run on a (not known to DDB) serial terminal! Yes, I acknowledged this elsewhere. I still think that this would be the exception, though. Greg
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