>When I throw xterms from another linux machine, the backspace key
>doesn't work properly (is set to something other than ~H). It currently
it happens to me all the time because i use a huge variety of unices all
of which have their defaults (ugh, irix thinks ^_ should be interrupt
when the rest of the world (even dos!) knows it should be ^C). anyway,
i got tired of
stty erase ^? and ^H, and just wrote a wee shell script i source from
my .login, and i put it on every machine i use more than once. then,
i never have to worry again about it not working. well, sometimes
screen -r'ing from a weird machine throws it off in the reattached session
but thats pretty rare (and i'm a hardcore screen user).
it goes a little something like this.
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: .loginstuff,v 1.24 1998/04/09 02:03:04 fool Exp $
#
# this being the script which does smart backspace sensing...
# with new improved command-instead-of-backspace recognition.
set BOINK
echo -n "Hit your backspace key and ENTER: "
read BOINK
if echo $BOINK | grep ' ' > /dev/null 2>&1
then
echo "you dork."
echo
exec $BOINK
fi
if test x"$BOINK" = x;
then
echo "yer backspace was already werkn right, freak."
else
echo $BOINK
stty erase $BOINK
fi
exit 0
sure, i have to hit backspace every time i log in, but after using it
for 4 years, it becomes second nature.
or maybe even first nature.
and, i think this version will run the command you hit instead of backspace
if you forget, too. i don't forget anymore, tho. you can hack to taste.
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