bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) (09/19/87)
About half the terminals in the world send ^? '\177' DEL and the other half send ^H '\010' BS when you press the fat key near the upper right corner designed to backspace and delete the character under the cursor. On UN*X, BS is the natural choice, plus the key combination <ctl>-h is easy to find and press on any keyboard I've ever used. So, I've trained myself to type a literal ^H for backspacing. Which works fine, except on Macintoshes, and in GNU Emacs. (BTW, I also type ^[ for ESC, since that one also tends to be hard to find and generate on weird keyboards). Bart Massey UUCP: ..tektronix!reed!bart