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Date:      Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:14:47 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Backspace = ^H
Message-ID:  <19970326001447.QV50783@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199703251409.OAA00279@shift.lan.awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mar 25, 1997 14:09:38 %2B0000
References:  <199703251238.NAA10221@ravenock.cybercity.dk> <199703251409.OAA00279@shift.lan.awfulhak.org>

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As Brian Somers wrote:

> I now agree that 0x08 is the right thing to send for a BS, so
> we need to have the default erase as 0x08 and remove the stty
> from /.profile and /root/.profile (a link anyway).
> 
> Any disagreements (freebsd-hackers) ?

Yes.  We've been there before, and found that it's so much a matter of
personal preference that we cannot agree on anything.  I'm certainly
not the only one whose entire setup on a bunch of machines is trimmed
to ^? as the rubout key.  (I normally also map this to the key that is
labelled <-- on my keyboard.  I don't have keyboards where this key
might be labelled `Backspace' anyway. :)

Root's profile shouldn't try to touch the rubout setting at all.

Hold on, i've just resubmitted an old suggestion to Søren...

-- 
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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