From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 19:33:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F00A637B41A for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 19:33:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020401033324.DKOV1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@max> for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 03:33:24 +0000 Message-ID: <200203312233270974.1BD2EE9B@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020331221322.F63569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020331221322.F63569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:33:27 -0500 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail [sending itself mail, backspacing?] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> and when I use a terminal I can't backspace, is their any way to fix >that??>>.................. >There is definitely a way to fix backspace issues. In the syscons= (console >mode, non X-Windowed), when I hit either the Backspace or Delete key, the >character to the left is destroyed/removed. However, in emacs (editor), >backspace for some reason sends C-h (ctrl-h) to emacs. What shell do you >use? If you use the stty command, you'll see where it maps ctrl-h to be erase.= That is, in fact, what code the backspace key sends. If your shell isn't doing this, then you can issue the command: stty erase ^h where the ^h is really those characters - shift-6 followed by the h. This= will tell the shell that ctrl-h (or the backspace key) is to delete the previous character. Of course, it is a problem in emacs, where ctrl-h invokes the help system. Keymapping in X fixes this problem, so that the backspace key doesn't send ctrl-h, but rather sends the DEL key. I'm not sure how to do that in the console. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message