CaT wrote:
> Howdy folks. I've been trying for ages to do this but am failing
> miserably.
>
> How in GODS name do I get ^H to 'erase' on the console login prompt?
stty erase ^H
> I have the bakcspace key sending ^H (modified a keymap) and I have
> stty erase ^H in my rc.local and yet the damned thing still doesn't
> want to do it... ^? works regardless tho. :/
Are you referring to bash, or the terminal driver itself?
bash uses the readline library, which puts the terminal into raw mode,
and performs its own line-editing. You can configure this using the
~/.inputrc file. Try using
"\b": backward-delete-char
See the readline(3) manpage for more details.
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