Circa 2001-Dec-04 15:00:07 +0000 dixit Rory Campbell-Lange: : I sometimes have problems with my backspace key, frequently when a : program opens from another program with a term. Normally the backspace : key works fine, but when I'm trying to do a search in man, for instance, : I daren't mis-type something, because all I will see is a string of : literal '^H's when I press backspace.
Check your terminal settings: stty -a Look for the string 'erase = <something>;', where <something> is either '^?' or '^H'. I suspect yours is set to '^?'. You need to change the terminal settings to use '^H' for the erase key. If you are using xterm for your terminal emulator, this is easy; simply add the following lines to your ~/.Xdefaults file: XTerm*VT100.backarrowKey: true Alternatively, you can make sure that xterm adapts to whatever the terminal settings are by using: XTerm*VT100.backarrowKeyIsErase: true If you're using rxvt, you can use the following resource instead: Rxvt*backspacekey: DEC This makes rxvt interpret [Backspace] as '^?', and [Shift+Backspace] as '^H'. I believe that KDE's Konsole and the GNOME Terminal both have menu options to handle the Backspace/DEL problem. I'm unsure about derivatives of rxvt (aterm, eterm, wterm). Good luck. -- jim knoble | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/ (GnuPG fingerprint: 31C4:8AAC:F24E:A70C:4000::BBF4:289F:EAA8:1381:1491)
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