On 2010-12-22 08:41 +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: > It seems that current plain FreeBSD kernel generates events > that fully corresponds to cons25 entry. > > It just uses different definitions for kbs and kdch1 wrt Linux, > > Linux: kbs=\177 kdch1=\E[3~ > FreeBSD/cons25s kbs=^H kdch1=\177 > > The problem might be incorect "stty erase" setting, > programs that do not honor these settings > or some workarounds in programs.
Emacs, for instance, does not expect ^H to mean "delete previous character" by default. Instead it invokes the online help, which is annoying to no end. While this can be changed in .emacs, the backspace key not working out of the box is still a serious problem IMO. > It seems that upstream FreeBSD plans to switch their $TERM into xterm, > via TEKEN_XTERM. Actually the switch to xterm has happened already, more than one year ago: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=199250. Note that Debian uses kbs=\177 in the xterm terminfo entry, while xterm upstream has kbs=^H. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org