Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:26:40 -0800 From: Michael Barrett <mike@daboyz.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: aterm, screen, and backspace Message-ID: <20021219072640.GB21600@daboyz.org>
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Howdy, I just recently got into freebsd and everything has been running
great. Tonight I decided to change the compile time options that I set
aterm up with and ran into some problems.
Before doing this I went ahead and ran cvsup to make sure I had the latest
and greatest port of aterm. I don't know if anything got updated, but
I only built my machine about a month ago with the latest ports. I haven't
seen any changes to the aterm port, but maybe I'm using the port changes
search engine wrong.
Anyways, after making sure I had the latest port info I then de-installed
my copy of aterm, and then did a make install clean to re-install it, using
the standard Makefile.
Everything seemed fine till I went and ran screen. When I ran screen, I
found that I could no longer use backspace. Instead of backspacing, it
would instead simply cause my terminal to beep. I hit ^V then the backspace
key and this is the code it's returning: ^[[3~ .
I looked around the newsgroups and couldn't find a whole lot of answers
in regards to this. I found something about .inputrc, a file which I use
to give me vi bindings in the python interpreter. Here's the extent of my
.inputrc file:
set editing-mode vi
I wouldn't imagine this would cause many problems, yet when I went ahead
and moved the .inputrc to .inputrc.old and started up screen, then my
backspace key printed a ~ and would cause my terminal to beep. Hitting
^V backspace now reported ^[[3~ as well.
Anyways I quite plainly 'don't get it'. Nothing else has changed on my
system. I am running the following software:
Screen version 3.09.13 (FAU) 5-Sep-02
aterm version 0.4.2
Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks in advance for any help you can
give me. I use screen and aterm a lot, so losing the combo really really
hurts. Thanks again.
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Mike Barrett | "I used to read, now I go to raves."
mike@daboyz.org | -- Random MUNI Rider, speaking
www.daboyz.org | to my friend Allison.
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