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authorChristoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>2015-03-10 00:20:28 +0100
committerChristoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>2015-03-10 00:20:28 +0100
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Change the FAQ for the new Backspace behaviour.
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@@ -98,10 +98,14 @@ If you want to compile st for OpenBSD you have to remove -lrt from config.mk, an
98st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are 98st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are
99included in libc on this platform. 99included in libc on this platform.
100 100
101## Backspace key does not work 101## The Backspace Case
102
103St is emulating the Linux way of handling backspace being delete and delete being
104backspace.
102 105
103This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list 106This 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
108terminal 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
160If you really want emulate the errors of another terminal emulators 164Apply [1].
161and have a backspace key that generates a DELETE and a delete key
162that generates BACKSPACE, then you can apply the patch
163found 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
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