Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:25:50 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote. Message-ID: <20090523162550.GA8656@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20090523150300.a8aa0440.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090523060358.GA9596@thought.org> <20090523103556.GA2331@saltmine.radix.net> <20090523150300.a8aa0440.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:35:56 -0400, Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> wrot= e: > > probably (outside of Linux and a few special cases such as Cygwin, > > "everyone" else uses ^H for backspace - all of the BSD's and all > > of the vendor Unix's). >=20 > As far as I know, ^? indicates the delete key... Maybe the > delete key does ^H in this setting? By "uses ^H for backspace", I was referring to the terminal emulators such as xterm which can be initialized to send either ^H or ^? for the "backspace" key, as well as the console terminals which generally send one or the other... --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFKGCOMtIqByHxlDocRAg9pAJ9SkxFs8Q+xcBcuqr7x8npUn+5I+gCeNOs6 AhEJD4WfKJ+bnldCpi55uJU= =Vl1r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy--
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