6.0-RELEASE problems with terminal

Vladimir Woelfl vladow at insilica.com
Fri Dec 9 07:33:35 PST 2005


Hi

Okay, i've read the docs&mans to the extent possible without finding 
anything about this, i've searched the whole net upside down,
finally i edited the termcap manually, fixed "nd" to "^?" in cons25 
def., made cap_mkdb on the termcap, and i still can't get the <DEL> key 
to behave as forward-delete.
I succeeded for VI which gets it okay, but in the shells <BKSP> and 
<DEL> still act identically. Now, as i remember a few years ago this was 
the same, with FreeBSD 4.2 or 4.3... except at that time this didn't 
bother me at all. Now the problem is i have a lot of people who work in 
the shell on a daily basis, and they are used to
<DEL> being forward delete, and <BKSP> being backward delete. Also, when 
i think a little bit further about this, i don't get the point of having 
two keys with the same function? Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks&Best Regards,
Vladimir



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