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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:59:19 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BETA4 Vi backspace behavior
Message-ID:  <20040921035919.GA81408@parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <414FA035.6000503@cinci.rr.com>
References:  <414F8934.4080509@cinci.rr.com> <20040921021141.GA77929@parodius.com> <414FA035.6000503@cinci.rr.com>

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Try hitting Control-V then your Backspace key while inside of your
shell (or inside of a non-curses app, such as telnet).  It'll spit out
what your backspace character is (usually ^? or ^H).

It's highly possible it's supposed to be ^? instead of ^H.

If it shows up as ^H, I have no other ideas.

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.                             |

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:29:57PM -0400, Mike B wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 
> >stty -a.  Look at `erase'.  `erase2' is not supported by "a lot" of
> >apps, but more and more seem to be supporting it.  I've a PR that's
> >still open, in attempt to get less/more to support erase2.
> >
> >Also, if you're not truly on the FreeBSD VGA console, cons25 is
> >incorrect.  In that case, try xterm or vt100.
> >
> > 
> >
> Both erase and erase2 appear to be set to '^H'. I also looked into the 
> "echoe" option but that didn't resolve the problem either.
> 
> Mike



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