From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 13:35:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kodos.tinet.ie (kodos.tinet.ie [159.134.237.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E7937B5F7 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:35:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcfbsd@mail2.eircom.net) Received: from p108.as1.naas1.eircom.net ([159.134.254.108]) by kodos.tinet.ie with smtp (Exim 2.05 #23) id 12fqKP-0005R2-00; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:35:08 +0100 Subject: Re: backspace produces ^H in X Date: Thu, 13 Apr 00 21:37:50 +0100 x-sender: fcfbsd@mail2.eircom.net x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0, March 15, 1997 From: fcfbsd To: "David Banning" , "FreeBSD" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i tend to find this normal. perhaps it shouldn't be. however, i usually edit my .cshrc or .login to detect the TERM variable and do some adjustments as necessary. i know it's not the neatest solution but if your trying to work your way into the operating system, as i am, without getting into the guts of termcap then it works ok. >I am getting a hopeless ^H when I try and backspace in X. > >I get get rid of it ny typing "stty erase ^H" but >I don't want to have to do this every session. > >I have tried putting that "stty erase ^H" command in .xinitrc >with no result and even put it in .profile > >I don't even know why this started happening. > >Any ideas? > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message