From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 23 19:45:51 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 E56BF1065675 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 19:45:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A098C8FC1A for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 19:45:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n4NJkn1Z091270; Sat, 23 May 2009 12:46:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 12:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:45:40 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Thomas Dickey Message-ID: <20090523194540.GA12144@thought.org> References: <20090523060358.GA9596@thought.org> <20090523103556.GA2331@saltmine.radix.net> <20090523150300.a8aa0440.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090523162550.GA8656@saltmine.radix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090523162550.GA8656@saltmine.radix.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Polytropon , 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 19:45:52 -0000 On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:25:50PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:35:56 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > 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). > > > > 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... > Problem solved. I didn't expect anyone else to have this bug, but then I googled and found that on ubuntu linux I had to set my Keybord to "Solaris"; it had been set to "Linux". I use the kde Konsole emulator on both desktop. The Keyboard setting of "freebsd console" works fine here on FBSD. 'Strange-but-true' .... > -- > Thomas E. Dickey > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 4.91a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php