ALT key on console25?

[John Conover]

Doing the following:

    mymachine# egrep 014 /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd 
      014   bs     bs     del    del    bs     bs     del    del     O
    mymachine# kbdcontrol -l /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd

should set the backspace and shift backspace key sequence to rub out
the character before the cursor on the command line, (it does,) and
ctrl-backspace to delete the character under the cursor; it doesn't.

The problem is that del = bs, so if /etc/defaults/rc.conf has:

    keymap="us.iso.kbd"

then scan code 103, (the Delete key on a US 104 key keyboard,) will be
a backspace key, and there will be no Delete key.

Note that if:

    keymap="NO"

the backspace and Delete keys work as they should. But if a keymap is
specified, (say, perhaps to map the Alt keys,) then you can't have a
Delete key.

How do you work around del = bs in the keymaps?

        Thanks,

        John

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John Conover, conover at rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/