Re: Backspace key "<-" not mapping to ^H

Jordan Gordeev wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
I'm not sure whether this just in Ubuntu or in the Gnome desktop
or what, but for days, when I type mail in vi in mutt, sometimes
I get a "^?" when I hit the backspace. ^H still works to back up
and correct my typos, but that's lots more work that what my
fingers are accustomed to. It may be when I'm ssh'd across
servers. I thought I'd ask here before I dig into this. I think
a new xterm was recently updated in ports; not sure if tat is a
factor or not.

xev understands that the b'space key is a backspace and tells me
the keycode. Should I just us xmodmaprc to fix this? thanks
for any clues!!

gary



See stty(1) and termios(4). You should modify the erase or erase2 values.

The terminal settings available from gnome (if you open up an xterm / Gnome terminal shell using the Terminal command under the menu) has various options which do the same thing, without touching the stty and termios values, while accomplishing properly deletion in your terminal window.

-Garrett
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