On Mar 29, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:31:19AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>
>> I don't understand what you're complaining about.  On the console, I
>> can easily see that backspace generates ^H and delete generates ^?.
>> Whether your shell or applications are configured to treat these the
>> same way is hardly a problem that wscons should try to solve.
>
> But it's not "my" shell - it's a shell found on the NetBSD CD (every 
> shell
> I tried: c, sh, bash, tcsh - not tried zsh nor ksh). So, what should I 
> do,

It's most evident w/ programs like cat, ed, ex.  They just use the tty
driver, so there's no question of readline() etc, or other shell 
features,
getting in the way, trying to fix things.

> to make the shell (and applications) differentiate among "backspace" 
> and
> "delete"? Currently I've got two "backspace" keys.

I was confused by what you meant earlier on in this thread, but I think
I get it, but its more like we have 3 delete-like keys.
1.  RUBOUT/BACKSPACE/"delete"
2.  grey pad del
3   number pad del

In cat, or ed,
   ctrl-h  produces ^h
   the  rubout/backspace  erases
   grey pad del erases
   and number pad del ^[[3~
judging from stty erase is ^?.  So I'm inferring grey pad del is 
producing ^? .   And if I do 'stty erase ^H', and cat again, both are 
producing ^?
and not erasing.  Which seems wierd, should be an esc sequences 
shouldn't it? How could an console or ncurses program see those as 
different keys?
( I should note that ksh accepts both as erase on command line )

I don't think any ascii teletypes had number pads... maybe they did... 
I seriously doubt they had grey keys, the only 1 I've ever seen is the 
one in movie _Andromeda_Strain_.  I believe the whole erase is 
backspace vs delete confusion started with introduction glass-ttys and 
ctr-terminals, not printing terminals.  Isn't ^? kill on printing 
terms? (and xdm?).
Anyway my point is the grey delete key is much more modern, why is it 
sending ^? ?  I think w/ the grey keys, the meaning is forward delete, 
or delete selection , and never erase.  At any rate, I think they are 
more application specific and not ancient teletype stuff and should be 
sending some vt like sequence so ncurses, etc can grab it and 
distinguish it from ^? or ^H.
Back to cat, if I type a grey insert I get ^[[2~, now if one
takes a look at wsemul_vt100_keys.c that corresponds to KS_KP_Insert
1 line below is KS_KP_Delete, which is ^[[3~  .  My grey insert and my 
keypad insert are sending the same thing,  that ok, but why isn't my 
grey
del key sending same as keypad del key? and how can I make so it does?