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- From: sproven@cs.strath.ac.uk (Simon B Proven IE91)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements
- Message-ID: <10383@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 11:50:07 GMT
- References: <memo.597624@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.
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- In article <memo.597624@cix.compulink.co.uk> lorcan@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >What cockup? The Backspace key generates the backspace character and the
- >Delete key generates the Delete character. It's up to the applications
- >to respond to these ACSII codes as they see fit - it's nothing to do
- >with the OS. In this here copy of SrcEdit when I press the Backspace key
- >it deletes the character to the left of the caret. QED.
-
- Those who think Unix gets it right talk rubbish - if I use backspace in
- many places (usually to a remote machine) then I get ^H and/or ^? depending
- on which setup I'm logged on to. Hardly standardised, or easy to use,
- since I can never tell what it's going to be. At least the machines here
- (Sparcstation ELCs) use both keys properly on the console. BOTH for
- delete left, BTW - in vi anyway.
-
- >Lorcan
-
- mad@bike
-