From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 20:29:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A170837B40A for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost) by cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8H3SbE05292; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:28:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Whalen X-X-Sender: To: Wayne Cuddy Cc: Subject: Re: backspace does not delete previous character In-Reply-To: <20010916182025.A16926@crb-web.com> Message-ID: <20010916202806.V5270-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tried stty erase ^H in a login file?? Brian "Sonic" Whalen Success = Preparation + Opportunity On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > When I login to a Linux box via the console (sc driver). Backspace does not > function as delete in vim and emacs. I end up having to hit the key > in order to erase the previous character on the line. This is very > cumbersome. Any tips on how to fix this? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message