On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 07:38:00PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote: > > > BTW I'd be interested to hear any justification of why <--- == DEL > > Well, from a sheer visual standpoint, seeing an arrow pointing to the > left, like on the BS key (<--), makes one think that pushing that > button's going to move the cursor that way, just like the other arrow > keys. I've NEVER understood the funky behavior of the BS key on *nix.
I heard that the original DEC vt100? terminals had delete there and so they decided that they wouldn't change it to delete to the left. Why Linux kept this I don't know. Personally I don't care what it set to what, as long as it works like in DOS/OS2/NT - and Atari :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
