Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!coherent!dplatt
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: mac kermit
Message-ID: <5518@coherent.com>
Date: 10 Jun 88 03:32:46 GMT
References: <1243@csuna.UUCP>
Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Organization: Coherent Thought Inc., Palo Alto CA
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In article <1243@csuna.UUCP> dlt@csuna.UUCP (Dave Thompson) writes:
> I just finished a cursory evaluation of Kermit 0.9(40) and found one rather
> fatal flaw.  There is no option to make the delete key send a backspace
> rather than a delete character.

Ummm... I beg to differ.  Pull down "Set key macros..." from the
Settings menu, hit the delete key, replace the "\177" binding (ASCII
"DEL") with "\010" (control-H/BS), click Ok, then Ok again.  It's done.
You can save this macro-binding (as well as any other customizations you
may want) via the "Save Settings..." command in the File menu.
Double-clicking on the resulting document will launch MacKermit and bind
the delete key to be a backspace, just as you want;  other saved-setting
documents can provide different bindings for different purposes.

MacKermit's key-remapping capability is quite powerful... no nested
macros, as far as I can figure out, but it's entirely possible to bind
any character sequence to any particular key.  It's true that there's no
instantly-accessible "Send backspace for delete" command in the menu,
but the capability that is much more flexible than any small number of
menu-choices.

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