From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 31 05:23:55 2009 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 DD1101065670 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:23:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A82C8FC19 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n7V5NEn6083803; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:23:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:23:42 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Saifi Khan Message-ID: <20090831052342.GA83447@thought.org> References: <20090826013012.GA50679@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto alias a stty erase? 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: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:23:55 -0000 On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:59:27AM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > is there a way of setty'ing "stty erase" to [backspace key"? > > pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand > > set it every time when i use the Konsole term. > > > > thanks, > > gary > > > > to set this you need to specify command and key combination > > command is : stty erase > keycomb is : CTRL+v then press backspace key once > > overall it looks like > > # stty erase ^? > > Hope this helps. What worked was a simple alias: alias se="stty erase ^\?" but while this does save several keysttokes [ and hitting the ctrl key with "v" ], now I often forget to type ``se'' before i use vi or vim... :-) oh well... . gary > > > thanks > Saifi. > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php