Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost> writes: > Magnus Eriksson wrote: >> >> To those born after the Stone Age of computing, the above doesn't >> even begin to make sense. "delete character"? It's not a >> character, it's an operation, it's *something you do*. > > Not really. DEL is a character. Deleting a character to the left for > you as a user, is something the OS does for you, when requested. Agreed 100%. But, as enjoyable as this retro-flaming is (I have a VT52 still), the real questions are how to document setting things up sensibly for people with traditional views on DEL whether any defaults in NetBSD should be different I don't really care how other people set up their environments as long as I don't have to type on their keyboards... So to be constructive, here's my .Xresources fragment to make PC keyboards work as I think they should. /* * The following comments are for those that believe the key that is * where the delete (DEL) key belongs (from a VT52 or VT100) should * send DEL (0177) and that the terminal erase character should also * be DEL (0177). * * On a PC keyboard, the BackSpace key generates * keycode 22 (keysym 0xff08, BackSpace). * The "Delete" key is a function key near Insert, not a DEL key, and it * generates keycode 107 (keysym 0xffff, Delete). * XXX Figure out what happens under X with a keyboard with a real DEL key. */ /* * Don't mess with the pty's notion of erase (which defaults to DEL in * NetBSD). This should be set on all computers, regardless of the * type of keyboard. */ *ptyInitialErase: true /* * Make the backarrow key send DEL (without control), rather than BS. * This should be set for any display whose keyboard has a key labeled * BackSpace where the delete (DEL) key should be. */ *backarrowKey: false /* * Alternatively, one could set backarrowKeyIsErase to true, which the * man page says would set the backarrowKey state according to whether * stty erase character is DEL or BS. */ /* * It appears that ssh propagates the local stty erase character * setting to the remote machine, at least when both ends are NetBSD * 1.6.2ish. Thus, fixing the key that should be delete locally * (above) is sufficient to cause the correct behavior on remote * systems (i.e., ssh sends 0177 when the key-where-DEL-should-be is * pressed, the remote stty erase setting is 0177, in emacs both * DEL and M-DEL work correctly, and one can invoke help by sending 010 * (by typing C-DEL or C-H). (With the standard behavior of DEL * sending BS and stty erase set to BS, one cannot easily invoke help * in emacs.) */
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