From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 14:34:18 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 2583316A403 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:34:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D3613C4A6 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:34:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9] (may be forged)) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l1SEYHFp015585 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:34:17 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.41] (c-67-187-172-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.183]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l1SEYGWJ024040 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:34:17 -0800 Message-ID: <45E592D2.6010003@u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:33:54 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070122) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20070228035543.GA77041@thought.org> <45E52EFE.9000301@dir.bg> In-Reply-To: <45E52EFE.9000301@dir.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.2.28.62434 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: 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 14:34:18 -0000 Jordan Gordeev wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: >> 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 >> >> >> > See stty(1) and termios(4). You should modify the erase or erase2 values. The terminal settings available from gnome (if you open up an xterm / Gnome terminal shell using the Terminal command under the menu) has various options which do the same thing, without touching the stty and termios values, while accomplishing properly deletion in your terminal window. -Garrett