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Date:      Sat, 23 May 2009 12:25:50 -0400
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote.
Message-ID:  <20090523162550.GA8656@saltmine.radix.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090523150300.a8aa0440.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <20090523060358.GA9596@thought.org> <20090523103556.GA2331@saltmine.radix.net> <20090523150300.a8aa0440.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:35:56 -0400, Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> wrot=
e:
> > probably (outside of Linux and a few special cases such as Cygwin,
> > "everyone" else uses ^H for backspace - all of the BSD's and all
> > of the vendor Unix's).
>=20
> As far as I know, ^? indicates the delete key... Maybe the
> delete key does ^H in this setting?

By "uses ^H for backspace", I was referring to the terminal emulators
such as xterm which can be initialized to send either ^H or ^? for
the "backspace" key, as well as the console terminals which generally
send one or the other...

--=20
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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