On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Derek Martin wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Adam Wendt wrote:
> 
> > Here's another inconsistancy between my old working system and my new
> > fscked up system.  Emacs (emacs-nox) does some strange stuff with the
> > delete and backspace keys when run in an xterm (works fine in virtual
> > terminal) So basicly I have to use the delete key to edit text while the
> > backspace key sends ctrl-h, I guess its a problem with emacs because emacs
> > uses ctrl-h for help, how can I reverse this so its like I had it before?
> 
> Here's something that I haven't tried, but may help:
> 
> stty erase '^h'
> ERASE='^H' ; export ERASE
> 
> 
> Um, what I mean to say is, throw those lines in your .profile or
> .bash_profile or whatever file gets sourced when you log in.

That didn't seem to do a thing ;-) 

I really like emacs-nox in an xterm, and what really bothers me is that
this worked fine before I had to reinstall, and I never did anything
special to get it to work.

=Adam=


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