On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:33:59AM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Can I similarly set the behaviour of Del key in the console?
> > Am using bash under Slackware, and the del key gives ~ and
> > doesn't erase.
>
> for console, use stty.
>
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Just chanced upon this mail while clearing my LIH mailbox. The
LOST in the subject caught my eye. IMHO, stty is not the answer.
The standard Unix tty driver does not not have a command `delete
current character' built-in.
Getting Delete and Backspace to work just right is nontrivial and
especially in a mixed environment where you talk to console, to X,
to bash, to emacs, login remotely, etc.
You may have to edit several configuration files to tell all of
the programs involved precisely what you want.
Specific for your bash problem on console, you can get bash to
recognize the Delete key by putting:
------<snip>----------
set editing-mode emacs
"\e[3~":delete-char
------</snip>---------
into ~/.inputrc in your $HOME.
This is documented in the FAQs of the kbd package.
HTH
Bish
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