> Looks like you did not understand the problem. > > DEL is the correct way to go.
I understood what Casper wrote. Technically, Casper is right. Ergonomically, realistically, it's unreasonable. > The problem is that the PC keyboards are not > ergonomic and have > the BACKSPACE key where DEL belongs. Correct. And just about every modern keyboard, including the Sun Type 6 keyboard here on the table in front of me, has a big [BACKSPACE] key with a nice big arrow pointing to the left. So, Sun can either press on against common sense, or simply remap erase to backspace. Like I wrote before, it's their call. I claim that in this particular case, it's unreasonable of Sun to proceed with keeping the [DEL] key be the default erase. I am also unequivocally NOT disputing the technical correctness. > If you reassign BNACKSPACE to deelete characters, > then many things > will not longer work correctly. > > The best Solution I am currently aware is to use > "rxvt" which locally > maps the BACKSPACE key event to a DEL key event. Hey, I know about stty erase ^V^H. It's an unnecessary PITA, and should be changed. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
