How to make delete key send a control C in Linux filepro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:07:38PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> Xenix as implemented by Tandy/SCO usually used the DEL, and Xenix was a
> bastard mix of SYSV and BSDish things.

Well, to be clear: Microsoft Xenix was based on first a V7, and later a
Sys3 Kernel.

> To further complicate things, the key mappings on various terminal vary
> widely (e.g. the DECish VTxxx terminals that send the DEL character from
> the upper right character that most terminals call backspace and sends
> ctrl-H).  Most keyboards today that are some variant on the 101 key PC
> keyboard don't send a single DEL character when pressing the DEL key,
> although this depends on the program interpreting the key strokes (e.g.
> xterm, Anzio, ckermit, etc.).

Depends entirely on that, actually.  After demurring for years, Simon
Tatham *finally* put a SCO mode in Putty, and that's one of the main
things it fixes.

> The ctrl-C cancel has been widely used for decades on a wide variety of
> systems, and is the same regardless of terminal type.  Having a single
> standard was more important to me than when I switched from running SCO
> systems in scoterms to running everything in xterms so I trained my fingers
> to use ctrl-C.
> 
> My login procedures all set the interrupt character to ctrl-C and the erase
> character to ctrl-H for consistency (and I have a $HOME/XTerm file that
> gets most xterms to use ctrl-H instead of the DECish mapping).
> 
> 	stty intr '^C' erase '^H'
> 
> BTW:  I do find myself hitting ctrl-H to backspace on occassions when I'm
> at a Linux system console that's sending DEL from the backspace key.

But, as we imply above, all of that notwithstanding, you *still* have
to make the key send the right code, and every operating system (where
it's possible to change it at all) does it differently, as does X.

Cheers,
-- jra
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