X-Git-Url: https://git.danieliu.xyz/?p=st.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=FAQ;h=921c4937c3decc6427df50de968268a3abcee05b;hp=61f94a5d656f7185fc27d0ad93c67d767f637bca;hb=e85b6b64660214121164ea97fb098eaa4935f7db;hpb=29619a1a35175fd79a743ed006af405ea586a0fd diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 61f94a5..921c493 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Use the excellent tool of [utmp](http://git.suckless.org/utmp/) for this task. It means that st doesn’t have any terminfo entry on your system. Chances are you did not `make install`. If you just want to test it without installing it, -you can manualy run `tic -s st.info`. +you can manually run `tic -sx st.info`. ## Nothing works, and nothing is said about an unknown terminal! @@ -92,16 +92,20 @@ in TERM. ## I cannot compile st in OpenBSD -OpenBSD lacks of librt, despite it begin mandatory in POSIX +OpenBSD lacks librt, despite it being mandatory in POSIX . If you want to compile st for OpenBSD you have to remove -lrt from config.mk, and st will compile without any loss of functionality, because all the functions are included in libc on this platform. -## Backspace key does not work +## The Backspace Case + +St is emulating the Linux way of handling backspace being delete and delete being +backspace. This is an issue that was discussed in suckless mailing list -: +. Here is why some old grumpy +terminal users wants its backspace to be how he feels it: 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 -## But I really want a wrong backspace key and a wrong delete key +## But I really want the old grumpy behaviour of my terminal -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]. [1] http://st.suckless.org/patches/delkey +