Re: [RFR] Installation Guide - update of apt-setup section for multiple CDs

2008-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jens Seidel wrote: ... > > If you are installing from a full CD or a DVD that is part of a larger > > I would drop the "a" infront of DVD or "full" altogeher. ... I'd rather say that you should drop the full here, since the "is part of a larger set" i

Re: the telnet/rlogin problem

1998-05-07 Thread Philip Hands
> Hi guys, > > While the proposed set of solutions generally works fine (letting xterm > use DEL and \e[3~, and leaving BS for apps), the telnet problem (remote > machines are likely to have kbs=^H, kdch1=\177 terminfo entries) is a > serious one. The expect script works fine locally, and could ma

Re: fixing backspace and delete

1998-04-22 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Anne, Just had a look at your web page: - Joe backs ^? Backspace backs ^H delch ^? # Del = Delete in default.map delch ^[ [ 3 ~# Del = Remove in default.map bol ^[ [ H # Standard xterm e

Re: fixing backspace and delete

1998-04-22 Thread Philip Hands
rxvt seems all right on the command line and vim,joe works OK too. My tweaked xterm terminfo is here: http://www.hands.com/~phil/debian/xterm.del-bs-fix just drop it in /etc/terminfo/x/xterm to try it out. Cheers, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: fixing backspace and delete

1998-04-22 Thread Philip Hands
> On 21 Apr, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > [problem with vim] > > AFAICT, vim has the same problem. Currently, you can make it work correctly > > only in one of xterm/console. If you "repair" one, the other will fail. This > > is very annoying. > > Indeed. Actually, I just found out this is

Re: fixing backspace and delete

1998-04-22 Thread Philip Hands
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is what I found (pico seems to be broken), with the difference that > I didn't succeed in getting pine to work. Exactly where did you put the > 'delch ^[ [ 3 ~' line in .pinerc? > Maybe pico can be fixed with an expect wrapper script? This works for me:

Re: fixing backspace and delete

1998-04-21 Thread Philip Hands
> * Some operating systems use `^H' for stty erase. However, modern > telnet versions and all rlogin versions propagate stty settings, > and almost all UNIX versions honour stty erase. Where the stty > settings are not propagated correctly things can be made to

Re: fixing backspace and delete

1998-04-21 Thread Philip Hands
> > 2) When someone remaps the keyboard, all applications should react in a > > way that allows the user to continue without noticing (except where > > the new mapping actually throws away information). > >For most Linux distributions (and not only Linux) it would be enough > i

Re: fixing backspace and delete

1998-04-21 Thread Philip Hands
> X is not the problem, whether the keymap is changed or not. However, as > mentioned before, while you can get every single application to work the > way you propose, the problem is to get them all to work at the same > time. Try getting joe, pico and pine to work, on the console, and in an > xter

Re: fixing backspace and delete

1998-04-21 Thread Philip Hands
>The latter has the advantage that it is possible to distinguish > the key Ctrl-H (help in some applications) and the key Backspace > ('delete a char left from the cursor' or 'page up'). Linux kernel > use it by default (see /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/defkeymap.map). > And also it looks better