Vance Shipley wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
} } However, his statement "functioning as a backspace" doesn't
} ring true, because, no such functionality is present (for me) in
} any terminal with that key, regardless of the $TERM variable.
} } Terminal emulation is a little bit mysterious to me; maybe someone
} with more expertise can answer the larger question. I'm just curious
} whether pushing the {right parenthesis} character on Vance's
} keyboard actually does backspace, and whether he's on the console,
} on X, using PuTTY from a Winboxen, etc., and/or what terminal emulator
} he's actually using, what version he's running, whether his termcap
} symlink or file is corrupt/missing, etc., etc., blah, blah....
} } Vance?
No, from the console everything is fine. It is when I use sh within an xterm or wterm that I have a problem. Using csh there is no problem. Pressing the ( key erases the character before the cursor when using sh within an xterm.
This is 5.3-STABLE. I found a few references by googling from others who have had the same problem and have also had to put a 'stty erase2 ^H'
in .shrc (or whatever).
-Vance
OK, check your ~ directory for TERM settings in either .shrc or .profile, might be setting something a little different. If you're using sh as your login shell, one or the other of those files is getting read, (I'm a tad lazy to RTFM ATM to figure which one is *first*), and its possible that it is being set there (the default .profile, for example, sets $TERM to "cons25". Surely you could fix the problem there, if that is what is actually happening. Whatever it is, hope it's easy :-D
Good luck,
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