Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:22:01 +0100 (BST) From: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Delete Key Message-ID: <20020606200404.A155-100000@kmart.lan.palfreman.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206061551220.674-100000@chania.di.uoa.gr>
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 tnu@chania.di.uoa.gr wrote: > WP> $ stty erase [press ^V, press del, enter] > > Instead of Ctrl+v, <DEL> the following is identical: > $ stty erase "^?" But neither has any effect on my virtual console! > WP> I can't understand the FreeBSD schizophrenia about del. > WP> It is a *PC* operating system. > > Perhaps, it's main target groups is PCs but this doesn't make it > a "PC operating system". It carries the history of BSD and BSD is/was not > a "PC operating system". Yeah, but that isn't an excuse for it to be unreasonably difficult to make a key do what it has done on that particular hardware platform for almost its entire history. I thought one of the principle design philosophies of FreeBSD is that the user is always right, and the OS didn't aim to remake the user in its own image. In this case, this user (me) wants to be able to use the del key for its traditional purpose on this hardware platform, and doesn't care what it was on DEC VT220 terminals or any of a mirriad of extinct platforms not supported by FreeBSD anyway. I don't need an extra backspace, I've already got one above enter. All I want to do be able to use sh and bash, and when I want to delete a word not to have to push the cursor to the other side of the word before I delete it. Del is convenient in that respect. It should at least be possible to configure this. > As for the <DEL> issue, the following works for me: > > $ bindkey "^?" delete-char Works for me when I run csh - I never use it as a shell. What about in sh or bash? Regards, William. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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