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Change the FAQ for the new Backspace behaviour.
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Christoph Lohmann <
[email protected]
>
Mon, 9 Mar 2015 23:20:28 +0000
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Christoph Lohmann <
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Mon, 9 Mar 2015 23:20:28 +0000
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FAQ
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FAQ
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If you want to compile st for OpenBSD you have to remove -lrt from config.mk, an
st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are
included in libc on this platform.
st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are
included in libc on this platform.
-## Backspace key does not work
+## The Backspace Case
+
+St is emulating the Linux way of handling backspace being delete and delete being
+backspace.
This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list
This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list
-<http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>:
+<http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>. Here is why some old grumpy
+terminal users wants its backspace to be how he feels it:
Well, I am going to comment why I want to change the behaviour
of this key. When ASCII was defined in 1968, communication
Well, I am going to comment why I want to change the behaviour
of this key. When ASCII was defined in 1968, communication
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-155,11
+159,9
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This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list
[1] http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html
[2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html
[1] http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html
[2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html
-## But I really want
a wrong backspace key and a wrong delete key
+## But I really want
the old grumpy behaviour of my terminal
-If you really want emulate the errors of another terminal emulators
-and have a backspace key that generates a DELETE and a delete key
-that generates BACKSPACE, then you can apply the patch
-found in [1], but please do not tell me it.
+Apply [1].
[1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey
[1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey
+