Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:37:49 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace key "<-" not mapping to ^H Message-ID: <20070228203749.GA25931@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <45E592D2.6010003@u.washington.edu> References: <20070228035543.GA77041@thought.org> <45E52EFE.9000301@dir.bg> <45E592D2.6010003@u.washington.edu>
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--qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:33:54AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Jordan Gordeev wrote: > >Gary Kline wrote: > >> I'm not sure whether this just in Ubuntu or in the Gnome desktop =2E.. > >> servers. I thought I'd ask here before I dig into this. I think > >> a new xterm was recently updated in ports; not sure if tat is a > >> factor or not. no (I don't recall making changes in that area). > >See stty(1) and termios(4). You should modify the erase or erase2 values. reasonable (Ubuntu uses Debian packages iirc, which makes it use DEL, FreeBSD uses BS for erase, etc). =20 > The terminal settings available from gnome (if you open up an xterm /=20 > Gnome terminal shell using the Terminal command under the menu) has=20 gnome-terminal isn't xterm (OP isn't making that distinction either). xterm has menu settings which can change the assignment of BS/DEL to the "backspace" key (unlike gnome-terminal, it has a manpage describing these details ;-). --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS 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 iD8DBQFF5egbtIqByHxlDocRAqkzAJwL2bsQEN6Q7Y2iKs2LN3/BHK3qiQCgnqk4 HgD02EA3str7pl5uZIcrSvE= =J5gp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS--
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