[rescue] Anal-Retentiveness and Source Code

[dave at cca.org]

jp at celestrion.net writes:

>My #1 nit-picky reason for liking IRIX:  out of the box, backspace is.....
>backspace!  Not DEL, but BS.  Like it's marked on the key caps of every
>terminal and console make in the US and elsewhere.  And... get ready for
>this... it -doesn't- switch when the window system loads!

>I mean, the DEL->BS stuff is brain-damaged enough, but -why- couldn't Sun
>at least be consistent about it?  DEC got it right.  Linux distros
>(usually) get it right.  Why should rubout not be bound to backspace?

A friend of mine has a sigfile something like:

	War is Peace
	Slavery is Freedom
	Backspace is Delete.

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