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@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ the VT100 simulation) makes a valiant effort to keep it in sync with your own ke
One more comment about BACKSPACE and DELETE: in the post-PDP-11, post-VT100 world of the IBM PC, BACKSPACE has come
to mean "delete the character to the *left* of the cursor," and DELETE now means "delete the character *under* the cursor."
Those are NOT what those keys meant to a typical VT100 user. BACKSPACE was originally a *non-destructive* leftward
Those are NOT what those keys meant to the average VT100 user. BACKSPACE was originally a *non-destructive* leftward
movement of the cursor, whereas DELETE was a *destructive* leftward movement. So DELETE on a VT100 is what an IBM PC
user would think of as BACKSPACE. To make matters worse, some modern keyboards now label the traditional BACKSPACE key
as DELETE.