> Just randomly changing default because some group of > people thinks > that such a default is better is not the right > approach; particularly > because there is a not necessarily a relationship > between what people > suggest and what the majority of people wants and/or > cares about.
Of course; but no person I've met so far that used Solaris, including people that are much more UNIX-hardcore than me, with more experience than me, used the[DEL] key to backspace-erase. Anybody I ever saw log into a Solaris system without tcsh to compensate for ^H or ^? first curses under their breath, then promptly executes `stty erase ^V^H`. Only do people reosrt to using [DEL] as backspace when all else fails! And, if we take the current situation in consideration, today we have the following: - [DEL] does a destructive backspace-delete - [BACKSPACE] does not, by default, that I've ever seen in any terminal or terminal emulator, do a non-destructive backspace. So, it doesn't really work as designed to begin with. What's the point on insisting to keep something 99% of the people don't use and doesn't work reasonably to begin with? I mean, come on. If can't even backspace non-destructively per default, what good is the current default setting anyway??? > 1) We need data Which data concretely do you need? > 2) We need to look for a better technical solution > first. I note that you've never directly answered my question about whether you're going to file an RFE / PSARC / what-ever-it-takes to change the $7f byte in /kernel/drv/options.conf to $08. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
