fix bug where first selection snaps to lines

[st.git] / FAQ

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@@ -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
 <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/c99.html#tag_20_11_13>.
 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
-<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:
 
        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
+