mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote: > There is only a "erase to the left" function and that is what the > "erase" character does. > > Anything else is behaviour of the specific program, which take over > input processing (by switching to cbreak or raw mode of the tty): > [...] > >I come from Windows, Linux background where BS removed from left and DEL > >erased to the right. FreeBSD behaves similiarly - Well, it also works that > >way on X11 on NetBSD. Meanwhile on wscons both remove to the left > That is completely independent of the environment. It's a function of > the particular program you run (e.g. the shell). > > For a simple comparison you could issue the command 'cat' (that just > reads input and writes what it read to output, finish with ctrl-d). > > The cat program has no idea about things like keyboard or line-editing, > but gets what the terminal driver supports (what the stty command > shows), and there is no line-editing either, just backspace/rubout.
Hm, that changes a lot. I thought it's wscons' job to process what particular keys mean. We learn something new everyday. > bash or tcsh (i.e. same as the editline library) will just > treat both the same unless configured. > > E.g. for tcsh you can use the command: > > bindkey "^?" delete-char > > The equivalent for the editline library is an entry in ~/.editrc: > > bind ^? ed-delete-next-char > > Our /bin/sh does use editline. Nice, now it works as I expected. It definitely deserves a mention in NetBSD Guide. Thanks! :> -- pl <p...@szwajn.net>
