Howdy, I just recently got into freebsd and everything has been running great. Tonight I decided to change the compile time options that I set aterm up with and ran into some problems.
Before doing this I went ahead and ran cvsup to make sure I had the latest and greatest port of aterm. I don't know if anything got updated, but I only built my machine about a month ago with the latest ports. I haven't seen any changes to the aterm port, but maybe I'm using the port changes search engine wrong. Anyways, after making sure I had the latest port info I then de-installed my copy of aterm, and then did a make install clean to re-install it, using the standard Makefile. Everything seemed fine till I went and ran screen. When I ran screen, I found that I could no longer use backspace. Instead of backspacing, it would instead simply cause my terminal to beep. I hit ^V then the backspace key and this is the code it's returning: ^[[3~ . I looked around the newsgroups and couldn't find a whole lot of answers in regards to this. I found something about .inputrc, a file which I use to give me vi bindings in the python interpreter. Here's the extent of my .inputrc file: set editing-mode vi I wouldn't imagine this would cause many problems, yet when I went ahead and moved the .inputrc to .inputrc.old and started up screen, then my backspace key printed a ~ and would cause my terminal to beep. Hitting ^V backspace now reported ^[[3~ as well. Anyways I quite plainly 'don't get it'. Nothing else has changed on my system. I am running the following software: Screen version 3.09.13 (FAU) 5-Sep-02 aterm version 0.4.2 Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. I use screen and aterm a lot, so losing the combo really really hurts. Thanks again. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Mike Barrett | "I used to read, now I go to raves." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Random MUNI Rider, speaking www.daboyz.org | to my friend Allison. ------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message