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