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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:00:42 +1100
From:      John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stty erase ^H ?
Message-ID:  <350DF56A.7D6257F9@scitec.com.au>
References:  <28031.890100094@time.cdrom.com>

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> This whole discussion is rather pointless in any case.  No changes to
> the current keymap behavior are planned or will be made.

The main problem I've found is backspace in an xterm. The console
works fine, but xterm has a mind of it's own when it inits the
pty modes. It sets erase to ^? unless you manually override with...

XTerm*ttyModes:erase ^H

...in your X resource file (whatever you choose to call it).

Cheers.
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