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Change the FAQ for the new Backspace behaviour.

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Christoph Lohmann 2015-03-10 00:20:28 +01:00
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@ -98,10 +98,14 @@ If you want to compile st for OpenBSD you have to remove -lrt from config.mk, an
st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are
included in libc on this platform. included in libc on this platform.
## Backspace key does not work ## The Backspace Case
St is emulating the Linux way of handling backspace being delete and delete being
backspace.
This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list
<http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>: <http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>. Here is why some old grumpy
terminal users wants its backspace to be how he feels it:
Well, I am going to comment why I want to change the behaviour Well, I am going to comment why I want to change the behaviour
of this key. When ASCII was defined in 1968, communication of this key. When ASCII was defined in 1968, communication
@ -155,11 +159,9 @@ This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list
[1] http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html [1] http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html
[2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html [2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html
## But I really want a wrong backspace key and a wrong delete key ## But I really want the old grumpy behaviour of my terminal
If you really want emulate the errors of another terminal emulators Apply [1].
and have a backspace key that generates a DELETE and a delete key
that generates BACKSPACE, then you can apply the patch
found in [1], but please do not tell me it.
[1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey [1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey