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backspace and delete
- To: Linux-IL Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Subject: backspace and delete
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:57:02 +0300 (IDT)
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
Hi all
I'm trying to make terminal apps behave the same under all the terminal
emulations I use. I run into the backspace-delete problem.
Naturally I turned to the Backspace-Delete HOWTO
http://www.docs.cs.huji.ac.il/LDP/HOWTO/mini/BackspaceDelete
However, it left me even more confused.
Generally it means that terminal apps should treat a keycode of Backspace
as Delete and vice-versa . No good reason is given .
I see that the debain policy requires the same:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s10.8
I've tried following that, and got into a mess. For instance, if I run
less, then pressing Backspace simply prints '^H', and pressing Delete
deletes backwards .
Is there any good reason for this mess? Can anybody recommend a better
source of information?
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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