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