From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 03:55:45 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 56CB416D19D for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:55:45 +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 04BCF13C428 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:55:44 +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 l1S3thtY003339 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:55:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l1S3thir003338 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:55:43 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20070228035543.GA77041@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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: Subject: 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 03:55:45 -0000 I'm not sure whether this just in Ubuntu or in the Gnome desktop or what, but for days, when I type mail in vi in mutt, sometimes I get a "^?" when I hit the backspace. ^H still works to back up and correct my typos, but that's lots more work that what my fingers are accustomed to. It may be when I'm ssh'd across 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. xev understands that the b'space key is a backspace and tells me the keycode. Should I just us xmodmaprc to fix this? thanks for any clues!! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix