Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 07:17:24 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: TCSH issue Message-ID: <20140926071724.102e528a@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <54243DA2.1070805@comcast.net> References: <54243DA2.1070805@comcast.net>
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Hi,
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:06:58 -0600
Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> wrote:
> Good Morning All,
>
> Upon a recommendation of a fellow and very experienced FreeBSD
> user...I have switched from bash to tcsh as my user shell. I have
> not and will not change the root's shell from sh.
>
> But regardless if I am at a CLI or in a terminal window on my "X"
> based desktop, tcsh is behaving strange. sh has the same issue.
>
> Let me explain: If I fat finger something into the cli....lets say
> "freeecolor -om"....If I was to place my cursor on the last "e" and
> backspace...everythings fine...However if I put my cursor on that
> same letter and press the delete key...it doesn't delete the letter,
> rather it inserts a tilde "~". "sh" behaves the same way on my system.
>
> Does anyone know how I can correct this behavior?
you need something like
bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char # make Delete key work;
in your .tcshrc
Erich
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