From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 11: 6:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-192-175-9.telocity.com (dsl-64-192-175-9.telocity.com [64.192.175.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35F537B424 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajhar@physics.miami.edu) Received: (from ajhar@localhost) by dsl-64-192-175-9.telocity.com (8.11.3/8.11.3/EAA-2001Mar23) id f3II6pN20629; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:06:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ajhar) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Does X change default erase char from ^? to ^H ? From: Edward Ajhar Date: 18 Apr 2001 14:06:50 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've checked the FAQ and the mailing list archives, and I have not found an answer to this question. I changed from 3-stable to 4-stable about a month ago, and now stty shows that my erase char is ^H instead of the usual default ^? setting. (I know all about this issue as I have been using unix for 17 years. I am not changing the setting myself.) So, does anyone know where it is being changed? Does X, knowing what keyboard I am using, assume (1) that the labeled "Backspace" will produce "^H" and (2) that I would therefore want "^H" to be my erase character? If so, how can I make X stop doing that? Or, have I missed something? I double checked with /usr/include/sys/ttydefaults.h, and it indeed has 0177 as the default erase char. I am using XFree86 3.3.6. Thank you for any help anyone can offer. --Ed Ajhar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message