misc/152162: On syscons, pressing delete key results in pressing backspace.

crocket crockabiscuit at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 12 15:30:13 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR misc/152162; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: crocket <crockabiscuit at yahoo.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/152162: On syscons, pressing delete key results in pressing backspace.
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:26:02 -0800 (PST)

 I made us.iso.mod.kbd in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps and set both 083(Del key on the keypad) and 103(Delete key) to fkey65 and 014 to del(ASCII DEL) in us.iso.mod.kbd. I chose fkey65 because it's the first function key not used by default on FreeBSD.
 After that, I added keychanges="65 \E[3~" and keymap="us.iso.mod" in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted.
 With """JUST""" "bindkey \E[3~ delete-char" in /etc/csh.cshrc, csh deletes characters to the right in both syscons and X11 terminal emulators.
 In case of bash, you would add a similar setting.(I haven't tried bash)
 
 I think 014(backspace key on the keyboard) shouldn't match ASCII BS so that applications are free to use Ctrl-H(=ASCII BS).
 A detailed rationale for all of those above is elaborated in http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html
 
 It's just a quick hack to match the keyboard behaviors in syscons and X11 terminal emulators so that delete key deletes a character to the right.
 So I want to see two things incorporated in the next release of FreeBSD(9.0-RELEASE?)
 1) fkey65 set to \E[3~ by default
 2) a new keymap based on us.iso.kbd or something similar that matches 083 and 103 to fkey65 and matches 014 to del.
 
 
       


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