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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:41:10 -0400
From:      Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Delete Key
Message-ID:  <20020606044110.GH4964@hal9000.halplant.com>
In-Reply-To: <001301c20d0e$3f42f090$5eb8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz>
References:  <26795.1023269182@www26.gmx.net> <20020605183613.GA4399@hades.hell.gr> <001301c20d0e$3f42f090$5eb8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz>

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Sanjay,

> I want to make the DEL key work while working with the bash shell itself.

# stty erase ^V<del>

Put it in your .bash_profile if this is really what you want every time
you log in.

Out of curiosity, why do you want delete to behave like backspace?


-Andrew-
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