From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 14: 3:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BE015A36 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 14:03:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA05994; Fri, 7 May 1999 09:00:04 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 09:00:04 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Mark Ovens Cc: Jim Pazarena , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console backspace ^H In-Reply-To: <37313921.D0BD89D8@uk.radan.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 May 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > Jim Pazarena wrote: > > > > I rlogin into my FreeBSD machine, and the default shell > > can't seem to figure out that I want to backspace and all it > > does is echo back '^H'. > > > > If I use the bash shell, backspace works as I expect it. > > > > What do I have to do to get the default shell to *also* perform > > a backspace instead of an echo of ^H > > ? > > ``stty erase ^H'', where ``^H'' is typed by hitting the backspace key. > I personally hate control characters in my .login file - so what I do is to enter: stty erase '^h' literally. There are no control characters in the above line. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message