@b0rk @mjd I see a lot of people have posted about history, but as I see it the _effects_ of the history are to create two current schools of thought.

1. the Backspace key (above Return) is 0x08, and the Del key (on the nav keypad) is 0x7F

2. Backspace is 0x7F, and Del is some sequence like ESC[3~ (similar to the rest of that keypad)

Emacs users like #2 because it frees up 0x08 to be ^H for help. But enough people like #1 that lots of software all needs a config option!