On Mon 08 Dec 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > I just want to be able to use both the 'Backspace' key and the 'Delete' > key on any VC, xterm or rxvt and I want them to do just what I expect them > to do, which is the same as what they do in MS-DOS. > > Now, if I am seeing it totally wrong, then please explain it to me.
The VC sends DEL (octal 177) for the '<--' key, so by your own requirements rxvt should also send DEL for that key. > A year ago I started using Linux and all of a sudden I got confronted with > people who strongly believe that the 'Backspace' key should do 'Delete'. > This is very, very confusing to me. Why don't you just let the keys do > what is written on them? I don't want the 'A' key to generate a 'B' and I > don't want my 'Backspace' key to do 'Delete'. I have a 'Delete' key for > that. It's not a question of a key "doing" something. The key sends something, and the application / tty driver "does" something with it. As long as the "stty erase" value corresponds to what the "<--" key sends, there's no problem. You could make that key send ctrl-e or whatever; as long as the stty value corresponds to that, it will work the way you expect it to. As rxvt's default action is to configure the "<--" key to send whatever is in the "stty erase" value, rxvt does The Right Thing, IMHO. Forcing rxvt to always send ^H for the "<--" key would not be consistent with what VC's do. Paul Slootman -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .