Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:41:28 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Vance Shipley <vances@motivity.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: erase2 ( xterm Message-ID: <41AD0528.6030607@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20041130230907.GA21202@frogman.motivity.ca> References: <20041130131228.GA19023@frogman.motivity.ca> <20041130154715.3465d998.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <41ACFA75.3040307@daleco.biz> <20041130230907.GA21202@frogman.motivity.ca>
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Vance Shipley wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
>}
>} However, his statement "functioning as a backspace" doesn't
>} ring true, because, no such functionality is present (for me) in
>} any terminal with that key, regardless of the $TERM variable.
>}
>} Terminal emulation is a little bit mysterious to me; maybe someone
>} with more expertise can answer the larger question. I'm just curious
>} whether pushing the {right parenthesis} character on Vance's
>} keyboard actually does backspace, and whether he's on the console,
>} on X, using PuTTY from a Winboxen, etc., and/or what terminal emulator
>} he's actually using, what version he's running, whether his termcap
>} symlink or file is corrupt/missing, etc., etc., blah, blah....
>}
>} Vance?
>
>
>No, from the console everything is fine. It is when I use sh within an
>xterm or wterm that I have a problem. Using csh there is no problem.
>Pressing the ( key erases the character before the cursor when using sh
>within an xterm.
>
>This is 5.3-STABLE. I found a few references by googling from others
>who have had the same problem and have also had to put a 'stty erase2 ^H'
>in .shrc (or whatever).
>
> -Vance
>
>
OK, check your ~ directory for TERM settings in either .shrc or
.profile, might be setting something a little different. If you're
using sh as your login shell, one or the other of those files is
getting read, (I'm a tad lazy to RTFM ATM to figure which one
is *first*), and its possible that it is being set there (the default
.profile, for example, sets $TERM to "cons25". Surely
you could fix the problem there, if that is what is actually
happening. Whatever it is, hope it's easy :-D
Good luck,
KDK
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