From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:35:26 +0000 From: Christian Neukirchen Message-ID: <87ipb2f1of.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <16274ba3-67d5-43ef-b741-722f2398ffa2@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p backspace/delete in osx Topicbox-Message-UUID: bbc1f282-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) writes: > On Tue Sep 25 11:44:21 EDT 2012, chneukirchen@gmail.com wrote: >> khm-9@intma.in (Kurt H Maier) writes: >> >> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 08:52:40AM +0000, Christopher Hobbs wrote: >> >> Being that macs don't have a proper delete key, how can I get delete >> >> behavior to kill a program in rc short of slapping a real keyboard >> >> on this machine? >> >> >> > delete to kill a program is a function of rio/9term/acme, not a function >> > of rc. >> >> Not true. It's a feature of the terminal line discipline. >> >> (The problem is that this only allows single chars as special keys, >> so you can't bind '^[[3~'.) >> >> (Actually, p9p 9term always sends the current intr-char on Delete, while >> acme/win and matty's 9term always send ^?.) > > the interrupt is delivered through the star wars-vintage > imperial garbage chute known as the tty subsystem, but > when i start 9term, stty intr is reset from ^C to ^?. > and if i change it back, then the fn+delete generates > escape codes, rather than an interrupt. Not on my p9p 9term: % stty speed 38400 baud; line = 0; intr = ^?; erase = ^H; -brkint -imaxbel -onlcr onocr % cat ^? % stty intr '^C' % cat ^C % cat ^C I pressed DEL twice, and after that C-c. The second DEL sends C-c, see /opt/plan9/src/cmd/9term/9term.c:441:winterrupt(Window *w) -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org