James, all, James Carlson wrote: > 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.
Exactly. I would like be able to use the backspace key for erasing one character left of the current cursor position without having to execute stty erase <bs> before. Regards, Bernd > 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.
