Small improvements to the FAQ - st - Simple Terminal
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(DIR) commit 29619a1a35175fd79a743ed006af405ea586a0fd
(DIR) parent b8804f9f675b79ddd2db47aeef626d6ae3ce5ca3
(HTM) Author: Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga@shike2.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:13:47 +0000
Small improvements to the FAQ
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FAQ | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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(DIR) diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ solution for them is to use the following command:
$ printf '\033[?1h\033=' >/dev/tty
or
- $ echo $(tput smkx) >/dev/tty
+ $ tput smkx
In the case of bash, readline is used. Readline has a different note in its
manpage about this issue:
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ Putting these lines into your .zshrc will fix the problems.
## How can I use meta in 8bit mode?
- St supports meta in 8bit mode, but the default terminfo entry doesn't
- use this capability. If you want it, you have to use the 'st-meta' value
- in TERM.
+St supports meta in 8bit mode, but the default terminfo entry doesn't
+use this capability. If you want it, you have to use the 'st-meta' value
+in TERM.
## I cannot compile st in OpenBSD
@@ -155,3 +155,11 @@ 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
+
+If you really want emulate the errors of another terminal emulators
+and have a backspace key that generates a DELETE and a delete key
+tthat generates BACKSPACE, then you can apply the patch
+found in [1], but please do not tell me it.
+
+t[1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey