On Tue Sep 25 11:44:21 EDT 2012, chneukirc...@gmail.com wrote: > kh...@intma.in (Kurt H Maier) writes: > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 08:52:40AM +0000, Christopher Hobbs wrote: > >> Being that macs don't have a proper delete key, how can I get delete > >> behavior to kill a program in rc short of slapping a real keyboard > >> on this machine? > >> > > delete to kill a program is a function of rio/9term/acme, not a function > > of rc. > > Not true. It's a feature of the terminal line discipline. > > (The problem is that this only allows single chars as special keys, > so you can't bind '^[[3~'.) > > (Actually, p9p 9term always sends the current intr-char on Delete, while > acme/win and matty's 9term always send ^?.)
the interrupt is delivered through the star wars-vintage imperial garbage chute known as the tty subsystem, but when i start 9term, stty intr is reset from ^C to ^?. and if i change it back, then the fn+delete generates escape codes, rather than an interrupt. - erik
