Not surprisingly i have 15+ threaded mail relted to osx.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:15 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> 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.
>
> - erik
>
>