[4478] in testers
Re: Linux 8.4.4: zwgc, backspace, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 20 10:57:56 2000
Message-Id: <200006201457.KAA03691@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "20 Jun 2000 07:49:45 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:57:49 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Jacob is correct that beland's backspace key probably doesn't work due
to some messing around in his dotfiles. I do have a minor correction
to make, though:
> Athena configures the default terminals to use DEL (^?) for erase.
Athena never messes with the default terminal configuration, or at
least, we don't try to. On Linux and Solaris, the default tty erase
character is DEL, and by default the BackSpace key produces a C-h in
xterm. Since this is broken, we hack the X resources to cause
BackSpace to produce a DEL character. On IRIX, the default tty erase
character is C-h (causing an inconsistency which is highly annoying
for remote logins), but there is no inconsistency with xterm. We've
briefly considered hacking the default tty erase character on IRIX,
but either laziness or a desire not to tamper has prevailed so far.
