Change the FAQ for the new Backspace behaviour. - st - Personal fork of st
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 (HTM) Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
       Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:20:28 +0100
       
       Change the FAQ for the new Backspace behaviour.
       
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         M FAQ                                 |      16 +++++++++-------
       
       1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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 (DIR) diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
       @@ -98,10 +98,14 @@ If you want to compile st for OpenBSD you have to remove -lrt from config.mk, an
        st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are
        included in libc on this platform.
        
       -## Backspace key does not work
       +## The Backspace Case
       +
       +St is emulating the Linux way of handling backspace being delete and delete being
       +backspace.
        
        This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list
       -<http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>:
       +<http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>. Here is why some old grumpy
       +terminal users wants its backspace to be how he feels it:
        
                Well, I am going to comment why I want to change the behaviour
                of this key. When ASCII was defined in 1968, communication
       @@ -155,11 +159,9 @@ This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list
                [1] http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html
                [2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html
        
       -## But I really want a wrong backspace key and a wrong delete key
       +## But I really want the old grumpy behaviour of my terminal
        
       -If you really want emulate the errors of another terminal emulators
       -and have a backspace key that generates a DELETE and a delete key
       -that generates BACKSPACE, then you can apply the patch
       -found in [1], but please do not tell me it.
       +Apply [1].
        
        [1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey
       +