Quoting "Pierre R. Mai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Am Montag, 27.01.03 um 22:27 Uhr schrieb Wayne O. Cochran: > > > Alright, what's the *&#%$! way to delete > > the last character at the top-level prompt? > > <backspace> emits ^H, <delete> does nothing. > > > > erase key is set: > > > > $ stty > > speed 38400 baud; line = 0; > > erase = ^H; > > -brkint -imaxbel > > > > I am using Linux. > > This should work, and it does for me, at least using an OS X > terminal.app to log into one of my Linux boxen. <snip>
Actually, when I use xterm on a linux box all is well. The problem is when I used the "OS X terminal.app" and I am ssh'ed into a Linux box. > Also, this isn't > really a CMUCL-specific problem, as CMUCL just uses normal I/O, and > doesn't meddle with tty settings. �I.e. anything that works for you > with e.g. cat, should also work for CMUCL... So I see, backspace just echoes ^? $ cat > crap asdf^?^?^?^? ^d $ stty speed 38400 baud; line = 0; erase = ^H; -brkint -imaxbel hmmm.... obviously a deeper issue... > A way to side-step the line-editing problems would be to use > Emacs/XEmacs in combination with ILISP to interact with your CMUCL > process Actually I just use the 'run-lisp' command inside of emacs and that fires off the cmulisp just fine. I'll check out the ILISP thing... much grass, --w Wayne O. Cochran Assistant Professor of Computer Science Washington State University Vancouver [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
