Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:50:51 -0800 (PST) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspaces converted to ^? -- want to get rid of ^? -_-... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0702021750510.19870@hymn07.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070203001953.GA13965@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007, youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: >> Ok, this happens regularly on my FreeBSD box at home when I'm not >> su'ed in as root using vim, or the SuSe box at work when I VNC into >> it (using vim once again), and I'm frankly quite tired of lame >> control characters screwing up my day. Is there any way to fix this >> behavior so pressing backspace erases a character, not prints out a >> ^? character? > > This is generally a function of your terminal emulator or xterm and is a > carryover from old DEC terminal's stupid keyboard mappings. > > The attached XTerm file put in $HOME/XTerm will get xterms to send ctrl-h > from the backspace key. Other programs like putty typically have a > keyboard configuration that permits setting the backspace key to send > either ctrl-H or a DEL character. > > I leave it as an exercise for the student to figure out my other tweaks in > this file :-). > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 > > ``Microsoft IIS has more holes than a wheel of Swiss Cheese after a shotgun > blast'' -- John Dvorak Hmmm... you have a lot of different tweaks in there. I'll definitely implement the delete thing as soon as possible. Thanks! -Garrett
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