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Date:      Sat, 04 Mar 1995 10:35:52 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: backspace now broken (proposal) 
Message-ID:  <199503041835.KAA01066@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Mar 95 21:15:57 %2B0300." <yGTvAMlqD4@astral.msk.su> 

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>In message <199503041717.JAA01010@corbin.Root.COM> David Greenman
>    writes:
>
>>>Grey Delete (near Insert and such) -> ESC [ K
>>...
>>>Few words about Grey Delete: many years of PC tradition DOS/Windows/OS-2/etc.
>
>>   This would really confuse people. It would especially mess up my own use of
>>the key. It needs to stay 'delete'.
>
>I remember from your prev message (correct me if it isn't right) that you have
>Delete key above Backspace key. I mean _another_ Delete, under Insert key.
>Did them produce different keycodes for you or just the same?

   No - I didn't say that. I said that backspace should be backspace (8) and
that delete should be delete (0x7f). I don't much care about the keypad delete
as I don't use it - but the delete below insert I use a lot...and this needs
to generate 0x7f.

-DG



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