Re: wsvt25 backspace key should match terminfo definition

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021, Greg Troxel wrote:

> wscons is supposed to abstract all this, so making wsvt25-foo for
> different keyboard classes seems like the wrong approach.
>
> [...]
>
> The underlying issue is that the norms of some systems are to map that
> "user wants to delete left easily reachable key" to BS and some want to
> map it to DEL.  I see these as the PC tradition and the UNIX tradition.
>
> So I think NetBSD should decide that we're following the UNIX tradition
> that this key is DEL, have wskbd map it that way for all keyboard types,
> and have stty erase start out DEL.  (Plus of course carrying this across
> ssh so cross-deletionism works, which I think is already the case.)

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021, Michael van Elst wrote:

> Some people also helped themselves with $TERMCAP. But I wouldn't
> create new entries for ps2 or usb (if anything use '-bs'/'-del').

Or, maybe have `erase=^?' and also a new `erase2=^H' like FreeBSD does? It
seemed extravagant to have 2 erase chars. when I first encountered it, but,
now I'm beginning to see why...

-RVP