On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, jdow wrote: > From: "David Cary Hart" <Fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:03 -0700, jdow wrote: > > > But I happen to fall into the group that fervently believes God > > > intended the Backspace key to send an ASCII backspace, ^H, and the > > > delete key to send an ASCII delete, 0x7f. +200 Why some windoze weenie was allowed to change it in the first place is beyond me. I really fail to see why a key called backspace should be expected to do anything other than, well backspace. Just like it did on a real typewriter. DUH!! > > Yes. Those were my intentions. There's a work-around if you search > > bugzilla. > > And pray tell what might I search on? (Bugzilla and I do not see eye > to eye when searching for bugs and solutions. It's pretty dreadful and > very Microsoftish - 100% correct and 100% useless.) I have to second this request. I just searched bugzilla for backspace and delete and all I got was 4 bugs that have nothing to do with the backspace key and the US english language. Regards, Tom Diehl tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
