From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 13:11:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DD537B407 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFEB743E6E for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:11:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 1850 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2002 20:03:58 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-84.upnet.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (root@150.140.128.170) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 25 Oct 2002 20:03:58 -0000 Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9PKBEu7002042; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:11:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9PKBDeT002038; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:11:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:11:13 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Michael Morris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backspace and del keys Message-ID: <20021025201112.GA687@hades.hell.gr> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1035564527.685.22.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-25 09:48, Michael Morris 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message