From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 23 16:25:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90CE106566B for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 16:25:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7B08FC14 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 16:25:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id n4NGPoV4009269; Sat, 23 May 2009 12:25:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id n4NGPopc009268; Sat, 23 May 2009 12:25:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:25:50 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090523162550.GA8656@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20090523060358.GA9596@thought.org> <20090523103556.GA2331@saltmine.radix.net> <20090523150300.a8aa0440.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090523150300.a8aa0440.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 16:25:58 -0000 --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:35:56 -0400, Thomas Dickey 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 --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFKGCOMtIqByHxlDocRAg9pAJ9SkxFs8Q+xcBcuqr7x8npUn+5I+gCeNOs6 AhEJD4WfKJ+bnldCpi55uJU= =Vl1r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy--