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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:11:13 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Michael Morris <memorris@christsgarden.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: backspace and del keys
Message-ID:  <20021025201112.GA687@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <1035564527.685.22.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org>
References:  <1035470680.2126.16.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org> <002001c27b95$f7f705e0$f7808c96@LocalHost> <1035500526.273.33.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org> <20021025020559.GA19906@hades.hell.gr> <1035558058.204.11.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org> <20021025163633.GD673@hades.hell.gr> <1035564527.685.22.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org>

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On 2002-10-25 09:48, Michael Morris <memorris@christsgarden.org> wrote:
> > erase seems to be set to ^H.  When you run cat(1) and press DEL what
> > does your terminal show?  My cons25 terminal shows:
> >
> > 	keramida@hades[19:34]/home/keramida$ cat
> > 	^?
>
> Mine shows ^[[3~

That's an xterm, I suppose.  Looks fine, in that case.

> > Are you resetting any of erase or erase2 in your shell startup files
> > with stty?
>
> There is a statement in the /etc/bashrc file:
> stty erase `tput kbs`

Hmmm.  Why? Try commenting out that .bashrc part.  What is `kbs'
supposed to be anyway?  The termcap(5) manpage doesn't mention a kbs
capability.

Giorgos.

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