Re: That DEL key thing...

2025-03-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sat, 8 Mar 2025 07:04:46 - (UTC), mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote: Subject: Re: That DEL key thing... > > I personally would say that emacs caused problems by occupying a > common control character. It never worked nicely on terminals > that sent ^H for the "Backarrow" key. My

Re: That DEL key thing...

2025-03-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sat, 8 Mar 2025 07:04:46 - (UTC), mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote: Subject: Re: That DEL key thing... > > I personally would say that emacs caused problems by occupying a > common control character. It never worked nicely on terminals > that sent ^H for the "Backarrow" key. My

Re: That DEL key thing...

2025-03-08 Thread Michael van Elst
p...@szwajn.net (pl) writes: >so my built-in keyboard is a PS/2 one, it seems. >I added that line to wscons.conf (and yes, wscons is enabled by default >there), now backspa^W backarrow generates "^H", DEL "^?". However both still >erase to the left There is only a "erase to the left" function

Re: That DEL key thing...

2025-03-08 Thread pl
Hi again, sorry for late response but I was yesterday dismantling my EeePC netbook which is part of the subject. Michael van Elst wrote: > On a PS/2 keyboard: > The "Backarrow" key generates a scancode 14, mapped to symbol "Delete" > The "Delete" key generates a scancode 211, mapped to symbol "D

Re: That DEL key thing...

2025-03-08 Thread RVP
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Van Ly wrote: RVP writes: Is the kbd-type correct? What does `setxkbmap -query` print? $ setxkbmap -query rules: base model: pc105 layout: us options:ctrl:swapcaps I don't know how to find the kbd-type. The ThinkPad interoperates with the