Re: backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote.

2009-05-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:25:50PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:35:56 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > probably (outside of Linux and a few special cases such as Cygwin, > > > "everyone" else uses ^H for backs

Re: backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote.

2009-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:35:56 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > probably (outside of Linux and a few special cases such as Cygwin, > > "everyone" else uses ^H for backspace - all of the BSD's and all > > of the vendor Unix's). > > As far

Re: backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote.

2009-05-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:35:56 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > probably (outside of Linux and a few special cases such as Cygwin, > "everyone" else uses ^H for backspace - all of the BSD's and all > of the vendor Unix's). As far as I know, ^? indicates the delete key... Maybe the delete key does ^H i

Re: backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote.

2009-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:04:05PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > guys, > > here's a bug with how the backspace key doesn't work across computers. > i'm not sure if there were troubles going from FBSD to FBSD, but there is > when i ssh from my ubuntu platform to my main desktop. i do this to edit > f

backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote.

2009-05-22 Thread Gary Kline
guys, here's a bug with how the backspace key doesn't work across computers. i'm not sure if there were troubles going from FBSD to FBSD, but there is when i ssh from my ubuntu platform to my main desktop. i do this to edit files or for replying to mutt mail using vi. going from ethos [ubuntu] t