Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 01:10:38 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: jungleboogie0 <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you make delete key work? Message-ID: <20140114011038.595803f7.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAKE2PDvsAsUetbGYR46g8nVBSzJboCUECC1cFFfULaOnFgQ2pQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKE2PDvsAsUetbGYR46g8nVBSzJboCUECC1cFFfULaOnFgQ2pQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:02:06 -0800, jungleboogie0 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Pretty simple question but I'm stumped.
>
> FreeBSD version:
> FreeBSD lylielion 10.0-RC5 FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 #0 r260430: Wed Jan 8 08:19:02
> UTC 2014 root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
> Connecting via ssh with Zoc [0] and I'm trying to use the delete key in
> place of the backspace key with xterm emulation, but it displays ~
> characters and doesn't delete any characters.
>
> What terminal emulation do I need to use to make the delete key work?
I've been using the following approach for many years (last two
lines are important):
if ( $?tcsh ) then
bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word
bindkey -k up history-search-backward
bindkey -k down history-search-forward
endif
bindkey ^? delete-char # for console
bindkey ^[[3~ delete-char # for xterm
To make this setting work globally, I've added it to /etc/csh.cshrc
in the interactive section - "if ($?prompt) then ... endif". This
should work across all terminal emulations. I've seen that FreeBSD 10
defaults to "xterm" in /etc/ttys. I don't know if this also works
in text mode where "cons25l1" has been the setting for my region...
The delete key now works as expected. :-)
This of course applies to the C shell (csh, tcsh).
If you're using bash, you might need other settings. But I'm
quite confident that the default settings should work.
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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