On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:59:41AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > The first thing you need to check is whether your terminal emulator (xterm, > or whatever you use) sends a backspace (^H, or ASCII 8) when you press the > backspace key. From your post it appears it doesn't, and you need to check > why. Xterm, for example, has the "backarrowKey" property which defaults to > true (backspace), but perhaps your Linux distribution tryed to "improve" > this default and uses something else - try control-left-mouse-button to > see your current settings. Or, if you're using some other terminal emulator > (you probably are, unfortunately xterm has grown out of fashion and replaced > by MS-Windows-lookalikes :( ), look into it's documentation. > > Another thing you should check is your tty settings. Run "stty" and see that > your erase = ^H. If erase = ^? then you are actually expecting the backspace > key to send a ^? (delete), so don't be surprised if it does (maybe your > terminal emulator sees this stty setting and generates the character it > expects).
Not intending to start a flame war, but this is against the Debian policy, which is also assumed by the "Linux Backspace/Delete mini-HOWTO". It specifically says 'Terminals should have stty erase ^?'. Needless to say, Debian itself is coherent, and makes sure everything works. But if you connect to/from debian to/from some other distribution, which has some other notions, you might have a problem. I am personally not even aware of similar documents for other distributions, so do not know if they have (their own or some external) standards for this. I do know that in every RedHat (or derivative) box I connect to from my debian machines, I have to put in .screenrc bindkey -d -k kb stuff "\177" to make backspace work in screen, but other than that, things generally do not^H^H^H^H^H^Hwork well (sorry for the stupid joke, I just had to). -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
