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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p backspace/delete in osx
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:45:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <daf68608a3b0ceccbeb6b2fd559f2b42@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nmmgm5n.fsf@gmail.com>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-25 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-25  8:52 Christopher Hobbs
2012-09-25  9:06 ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-25  9:22   ` Bakul Shah
2012-09-25  9:26     ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-25  9:39       ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-09-25  9:47         ` Bakul Shah
2012-09-25  9:50           ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-09-25 10:07             ` Bakul Shah
2012-09-25 10:51               ` hiro
2012-09-26  7:21         ` Yaroslav
     [not found]       ` <CAK4xykU+ZgTKa-enOhAJKDp3=+sT-T-v+6QJY_fa1a87gKMf2Q@mail.gmail.c>
2012-09-25  9:42         ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-25  9:49           ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-09-25 11:04 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-25 11:28   ` Bruce Ellis
2012-09-25 15:33 ` Christian Neukirchen
2012-09-25 16:45   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-09-25 18:49     ` Jiten Pathy
2012-09-26  8:35 ` Christian Neukirchen
2012-09-26 11:43   ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-26 15:50 ` Christian Neukirchen

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