From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 12 04:22:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC3B16A417 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:22:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dz902i@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E244313C428 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:22:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dz902i@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so1510858waf for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:22:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=aQxiAJWSIaeSGHASxvBFR0KELYy0/0S4BjFMoPjwfzh6JvK7m4jfM4zMAcwneDdzmwQ25DwxnPBomtrquE1CtpQCgb1V9IOIP5M2jpwwivPPVg+SVwlvvpwNruZL9GcobJ7+R2gtkSuSE8YE/Fh5f04X3CinOuV/EtkiID1ZQWk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=taMn7z194dtSVe/poqWDiNSMeZ/trbYc8slh1hlEFCTM3PDcTVZ4kZCaFOIbFma43EaT9v6y/FPoji0W+DYtdfqGi8HvzGqE9s27xenL853I6OAET70J6wfR2RWhpXBxiopiHPbVcS8afBgYw10FUm5Ol0MdjnaIKWaJL0E2JW4= Received: by 10.115.88.1 with SMTP id q1mr223908wal.1186890884576; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.46.2 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3e34b6550708112054u332f6760we3181393dbbdfe18@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:54:44 +1000 From: d.Z. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Backspace X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:22:18 -0000 Hello, I'm a new user to FreeBSD and Unix. I used Solaris 10 last week in lab, and found there is a difference between them. When Solaris is installed, press backspace will give you ^H, you'll have to "stty erase ^H" to solve this problem. But with FreeBSD 6.1, when first installed, backspace is always bounded to erase last character, even I have "stty erase ^?" and "stty erase2 ^?", backspace still deletes last character input. Does any body know why is this happening? And strange thing is with default setting (before stty erase and erase2 to ^?), when I use Emacs, C-h will give me back space, instead of help. I know this is desirable for experts, but I'm really new so just want to follow the instruction first. The $TERM is cons25. Regards, D. Zhang PS: This does not happen in X environment though. I've Google'd but nothing really related came up.