On Sun Dec 7 21:56:55 1997 +0000
(Sekmadienis, 1997 m. gruodÅio 7 d. 23:56:55 +0200),
Philip Hands wrote:
> Sorry, but don't we keep on agreeing that the <--- key generating DEL is the
> right thing to do ?
>
No, I don't think so.
> I could have sworn that I've been in several discussions that resulted in
> that
> conclusion, with the caveat that people should be able to reverse the default
> easily if they feel the need, as a local configuration option.
>
> I must admit that I have got a little bored with the discussion at times, and
> may have skipped some of it. So if someone has a more powerful argument for
> ``<--- generates BS'' than ``well they sound the same'' I'd like to hear it.
>
It was discussed really boringly often.
> I don't want to start a flame war, so feel free to mail me direct, and I'll
> summarise to the list.
>
> Cheers, Phil.
>
Common trend is to use stty erase value for
key_backspace. In that way you can easily set it to whatever
you want or what suites your terminal even without root access.
Some people may say 'that evil M$-DOS use Backspace
for Backspace key, let's do the opposite'. But I don't think
this is relevent.
Regards,
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