Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:33:27 -0500 From: "Jonathan Arnold" <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail [sending itself mail, backspacing?] Message-ID: <200203312233270974.1BD2EE9B@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020331221322.F63569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020331221322.F63569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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>> and when I use a terminal I can't backspace, is their any way to fix
>that??>>..................
>There is definitely a way to fix backspace issues. In the syscons (console
>mode, non X-Windowed), when I hit either the Backspace or Delete key, the
>character to the left is destroyed/removed. However, in emacs (editor),
>backspace for some reason sends C-h (ctrl-h) to emacs. What shell do you
>use?
If you use the stty command, you'll see where it maps ctrl-h to be erase. That
is, in fact, what code the backspace key sends. If your shell isn't doing
this, then you can issue the command:
stty erase ^h
where the ^h is really those characters - shift-6 followed by the h. This will
tell the shell that ctrl-h (or the backspace key) is to delete the previous
character.
Of course, it is a problem in emacs, where ctrl-h invokes the help system.
Keymapping in X fixes this problem, so that the backspace key doesn't send
ctrl-h, but rather sends the DEL key. I'm not sure how to do that in the
console.
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Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
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