Glenn Fowler writes: > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:29:15 +0200 Bernd Finger wrote: > > what are the plans for implementing/integrating > > > 1) the avoidance of stty erase <backspace> for certain terminal types (i.e. > > backspace will always erase the character left of the cursor) > > what exactly are you asking for here? > e.g., for terminal type foo I type in > echo bar<backspace> > and I expect ... but I get ...
I think he's asking to have it echo back "ba" -- the idea is to alias DEL and BS together, so they do the same thing, and so that you don't have to struggle with terminal emulators that seem to map these keys arbitrarily. I'm not so sure this is really something that belongs in the shell alone; it would seem to me that it'd be more widely effective as an ldterm option. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
