km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) (01/26/89)
The MacII keyboard does not have a "backspace" key. By that
I mean a single key that will generate the ascii bs character
(control-h). Is it possible to change this in software?
What I am really hoping is that either:
1) The keyboard is intelligent, and the keyboard can be
reprogrammed by sending some escape sequence at it.
2) The A/UX console driver has an ioctl that can alter
the key <-> ascii mapping.
From the man pages it appears that neither of these are the
case. It looks as if the keyboard is dumb, and that the
mapping is either fixed at the default or completely raw.
If anyone knows more than the doc, I would like to hear about
it.
NB: I am perfectly aware of how to fix termio (or it surrogate
stty) to alter the ascii <-> KILL/ERASE/INTR/QUIT mapping.
Thats not what I want. I want to change the key<-> ascii
mapping. The point is that I want the same ascii sequence
to have the same effect no matter which terminal I am
using.
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