From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 23:53:43 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 13B8D16A407 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF12013C49D for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1SNrfNL096548; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l1SNrf85096547; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:53:41 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: youshi10@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <20070228235341.GA88385@thought.org> References: <20070228203749.GA25931@saltmine.radix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community 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 23:53:43 -0000 On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:39:41PM -0800, youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote: > [[ yelps of various sorts about "STUFF" ]] > > You can set the default terminal in gnome to be xterm instead of Gnome > Terminal. Gnome then wraps xterm in a program they call "Terminal" which > you can setup to your liking using the preferences accessible from the menu. > > That's what I meant. Just relaying my experience because I had a similar > problem recently with Suse. > > -Garrett > Too bad there isn't some sort of web database for these sorts of miscellany with tags like (vi backspace-failure term) that would aide the search and solution for these type questions. This may be one of Google's aims, but there are miles to go.... gary > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix