Re: termcap issue

[Dave Huang <khym%azeotrope.org@localhost>]

On 8/20/2015 14:40, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> I would say that "stty erase ^H" is a suggestion on changing how 
> NetBSD reacts to an ASCII BS character...

Hmm, OK, I see what you mean... I wasn't thinking of it in that way (and 
erase is already set to ^H, so it's not really a change :)

> I'm actually surprised, since most people nowadays seems to actually 
> want erase to be bound to BS, and I have found NetBSD to do that for 
> me for the last 10 years or so. Personally I want to use DEL, and not 
> BS. But I seem to be a very small minority nowadays. :-)
> And I usually have to set it that way myself, which is why I have a 
> "stty dec" in my login scripts...

Maybe most people nowadays aren't emacs users? :) I haven't tried having 
the Backspace key send ^H in a long time, because when I did do that, 
pressing Backspace in emacs would bring up help. Also, it seems that 
wscons on NetBSD/i386 sends ^? for Backspace. But I haven't had to think 
about what it sends in a long time, since ssh is supposed to preserve 
tty settings when connecting to another machine, and up until NetBSD 
7.0, it's just worked seamlessly.