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author | Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net> | 2015-03-10 00:20:28 +0100 |
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committer | Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net> | 2015-03-10 00:20:28 +0100 |
commit | cf1fcc4d96f9162272003f82839388093c01360e (patch) | |
tree | 0b5b0b5e0fb6e6582c7c960481d32a544cbb43f6 /FAQ | |
parent | 230d0c8428456603ce3629dac75c46abc4c9f016 (diff) | |
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Change the FAQ for the new Backspace behaviour.
Diffstat (limited to 'FAQ')
-rw-r--r-- | FAQ | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -98,10 +98,14 @@ If you want to compile st for OpenBSD you have to remove -lrt from config.mk, an | |||
98 | st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are | 98 | st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are |
99 | included in libc on this platform. | 99 | included in libc on this platform. |
100 | 100 | ||
101 | ## Backspace key does not work | 101 | ## The Backspace Case |
102 | |||
103 | St is emulating the Linux way of handling backspace being delete and delete being | ||
104 | backspace. | ||
102 | 105 | ||
103 | This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list | 106 | This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list |
104 | <http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>: | 107 | <http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>. Here is why some old grumpy |
108 | terminal users wants its backspace to be how he feels it: | ||
105 | 109 | ||
106 | Well, I am going to comment why I want to change the behaviour | 110 | Well, I am going to comment why I want to change the behaviour |
107 | of this key. When ASCII was defined in 1968, communication | 111 | of this key. When ASCII was defined in 1968, communication |
@@ -155,11 +159,9 @@ This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list | |||
155 | [1] http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html | 159 | [1] http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html |
156 | [2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html | 160 | [2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html |
157 | 161 | ||
158 | ## But I really want a wrong backspace key and a wrong delete key | 162 | ## But I really want the old grumpy behaviour of my terminal |
159 | 163 | ||
160 | If you really want emulate the errors of another terminal emulators | 164 | Apply [1]. |
161 | and have a backspace key that generates a DELETE and a delete key | ||
162 | that generates BACKSPACE, then you can apply the patch | ||
163 | found in [1], but please do not tell me it. | ||
164 | 165 | ||
165 | [1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey | 166 | [1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey |
167 | |||