-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, just when I thought Red Hat finally had licked the damn backspace problem (at least, if you stay on Linux systems -- interoperability with other Unixen is still shaky), I upgraded XFree86 (for no good reason really, other than that the update was available), and got bitten by it again. Hopefully, this will save some people some time and annoyance. I spent the better part of today tracking it down...
The solution really isn't obvious, because it's not as simple as termcap/terminfo entries being out of sync with the value of stty erase, in this case. It's much, much more sinister. There is an X resource for xterm, XTerm.termName, which you can set to force xterm to use a particular term type, if you're not happy with plain-'ol xterm. If you leave this unset, it defaults happily to xterm. Well, sorta... What really happens is it defaults to xterm, but the program reads (and apparently processes) the terminfo entries for xterm, vt102, vt100, ascii, and dumb terminals. At some point during all this, the erase character is changed from ^? to ^H. Ucky. The weird thing is, if you set the resource XTerm.termName to "xterm" all works as you would expect (i.e. erase stays ^?). So, do that. :) If you're interested in the gory details, you can see them here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62671 You'd think after 30 years, Unixen could eliminate this ubiquitous and troublesome problem... - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8q94rdjdlQoHP510RAhaWAKCLsETSub8OThzu1HLa2BFYZpRx4ACggAMp 4aRUuuVrtcoXUUsXx4BXZ4M= =M9OU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
