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 | ||||
| st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are | ||||
| included in libc on this platform. | ||||
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| ## Backspace key does not work | ||||
| ## The Backspace Case | ||||
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| St is emulating the Linux way of handling backspace being delete and delete being | ||||
| backspace. | ||||
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| This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list | ||||
| <http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>: | ||||
| <http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1404/20697.html>. Here is why some old grumpy | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 	of this key. When ASCII was defined in 1968, communication | ||||
| @@ -155,11 +159,9 @@ 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 | ||||
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| ## But I really want a wrong backspace key and a wrong delete key | ||||
| ## 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 | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Apply [1]. | ||||
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| [1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey | ||||
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