Subject: Re: -key "introduction"
To: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/29/2005 11:31:19
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 06:30:44PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:17:52AM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> 
> > It may be that what you are seeing is the *application* is treating
> > Delete and BackSpace the same.  Is that possible?
> 
> I don't think so. In the text-mode "delete" is still "backspace-like" - in
> the shell, while using "screen"-utility, and also in applications.

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.

Thor