From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 20:37:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B4216A407 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:37:51 +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 DFCEF13C47E for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:37:50 +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 l1SKbnWJ027107; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:37:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id l1SKbnXm027106; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:37:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:37:49 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20070228203749.GA25931@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20070228035543.GA77041@thought.org> <45E52EFE.9000301@dir.bg> <45E592D2.6010003@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45E592D2.6010003@u.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace key "<-" not mapping to ^H 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: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:37:51 -0000 --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--