Small improvements to the FAQ - st - simple terminal (HTM) git clone https://git.parazyd.org/st (DIR) Log (DIR) Files (DIR) Refs (DIR) README (DIR) LICENSE --- (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 Diffstat: M FAQ | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- (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 +that generates BACKSPACE, then you can apply the patch +found in [1], but please do not tell me it. + +[1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey