Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:45:40 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote. Message-ID: <20090523194540.GA12144@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090523162550.GA8656@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20090523060358.GA9596@thought.org> <20090523103556.GA2331@saltmine.radix.net> <20090523150300.a8aa0440.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090523162550.GA8656@saltmine.radix.net>
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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:25:50PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:35:56 -0400, Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> wrote: > > > probably (outside of Linux and a few special cases such as Cygwin, > > > "everyone" else uses ^H for backspace - all of the BSD's and all > > > of the vendor Unix's). > > > > As far as I know, ^? indicates the delete key... Maybe the > > delete key does ^H in this setting? > > By "uses ^H for backspace", I was referring to the terminal emulators > such as xterm which can be initialized to send either ^H or ^? for > the "backspace" key, as well as the console terminals which generally > send one or the other... > Problem solved. I didn't expect anyone else to have this bug, but then I googled and found that on ubuntu linux I had to set my Keybord to "Solaris"; it had been set to "Linux". I use the kde Konsole emulator on both desktop. The Keyboard setting of "freebsd console" works fine here on FBSD. 'Strange-but-true' .... > -- > Thomas E. Dickey > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 4.91a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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