Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:09:07 -0500 From: Vance Shipley <vances@motivity.ca> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: erase2 ( xterm Message-ID: <20041130230907.GA21202@frogman.motivity.ca> In-Reply-To: <41ACFA75.3040307@daleco.biz> References: <20041130131228.GA19023@frogman.motivity.ca> <20041130154715.3465d998.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <41ACFA75.3040307@daleco.biz>
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
}
} However, his statement "functioning as a backspace" doesn't
} ring true, because, no such functionality is present (for me) in
} any terminal with that key, regardless of the $TERM variable.
}
} Terminal emulation is a little bit mysterious to me; maybe someone
} with more expertise can answer the larger question. I'm just curious
} whether pushing the {right parenthesis} character on Vance's
} keyboard actually does backspace, and whether he's on the console,
} on X, using PuTTY from a Winboxen, etc., and/or what terminal emulator
} he's actually using, what version he's running, whether his termcap
} symlink or file is corrupt/missing, etc., etc., blah, blah....
}
} Vance?
No, from the console everything is fine. It is when I use sh within an
xterm or wterm that I have a problem. Using csh there is no problem.
Pressing the ( key erases the character before the cursor when using sh
within an xterm.
This is 5.3-STABLE. I found a few references by googling from others
who have had the same problem and have also had to put a 'stty erase2 ^H'
in .shrc (or whatever).
-Vance
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