Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:17:52 +1000 From: Ruben Schade <newsgroups@rubenschade.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCSH issue Message-ID: <m02bbj$2ig$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <54243DA2.1070805@comcast.net> References: <54243DA2.1070805@comcast.net>
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On 26/09/14 02:06, Dave Babb 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? > > FreeBSD 10.0-Release-p9, x64. > > Thank you for any assistance you can provide. > > > Sincerely and respectfully, > > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Dave, [As Erich mentioned, just saw it!] you can add the following to your ~/.tcshrc file: bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char In light of bashbleed/shellshock, I half joked on Twitter that people should remove bash from their FreeBSD installs if they added it, and make tcsh their friend. Good to see people giving it a try, it's actually quite a nice interactive shell. Cheers :) -- Ruben Schade VM chap in s/Singapore/Sydney/ Site: http://rubenschade.com/ Blog: http://rubenerd.com/
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