From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 1 20:24:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DFB37B71A for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f323L3b17897; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:21:03 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:21:02 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm backspace vs wterm Message-ID: <20010402152102.B17687@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010402023223.A86431@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010402023223.A86431@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:32:23AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:32:23AM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: [...] > here are the contents of .Xdefaults: > > ========================= > XTerm*termName: xterm-color > XTerm*backspacekey:^H > Xterm*backarrowKey:false > XTerm*font:7x14 > > Xemacs*geometry: 80X35 > > ======================= > What do you think? How about: xterm*ttyModes: erase ^h That's a "^" + "h" and not a hardcoded backspace. Incidentally, what does "stty -a" report under the xterm? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message