Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:39:43 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H Message-ID: <19970326103943.36190@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <E0w9uXw-000540-00@rover.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Mar 03, 1997 at 08:23:27AM -0700 References: <877miussen.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> <5h2c01$4i2@reader.seed.net.tw> <5h6e83$1mk@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <E7KvDC.ILE@nemesis.lonestar.org> <5h8905$lj1@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <87g1xkqe8d.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> <5h9m3l$1ih@gurney.zeta.org.au> <199703261154.LAA11351@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> <E0w9uXw-000540-00@rover.village.org>
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On Mar 03, 1997 at 08:23:27AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <877miussen.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Andrew Gierth writes: > : >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Somers <brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org.demon.co.uk> writes: > : Brian> I'll co-ordinate with > : Brian> Jordan (the maintainer of the emacs port) a patch to change > : Brian> the default help key binding to ^x^h (now that's gonna cause > : Brian> some "controversial" arguments!) - assuming he agrees. > > That's a *BAD* Idea. *DO*NOT*CHANGE*EMACS*DEFAULTS*. Emacs may be I agree. I have a whole gaggle of real vt420s and vt220s around here (they are what we use on the sales floors) and when you press the "<X|" key on these things, you will get a "^?" character. This happens to be hardcoded into lots of our stupid Oracle Forms too. So "^H" does _NOT_ do the right thing here, ASCII charts, and Terry's rants nonwithstanding. Changing the defaults will just break everything again. -- Jonathan
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