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

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:37:49PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:33:54AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Jordan Gordeev wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
I'm not sure whether this just in Ubuntu or in the Gnome desktop
...
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.

no (I don't recall making changes in that area).

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

reasonable (Ubuntu uses Debian packages iirc, which makes it use DEL,
FreeBSD uses BS for erase, etc).

The terminal settings available from gnome (if you open up an xterm /
Gnome terminal shell using the Terminal command under the menu) has

gnome-terminal isn't xterm (OP isn't making that distinction either).

xterm has menu settings which can change the assignment of BS/DEL to the
"backspace" key (unlike gnome-terminal, it has a manpage describing these
details ;-).



Yeah... reading (and messing with) this new stuff is an
education.

Actually, I was using KDE's "Konsole" term, not Gnome. With the
Gnome version of xterm, vi behaves as-usual; with Konsole, nope.
Unless I'm missing some fine print, I didn't see a way of fixing.
stty in Konsole says that things are correct--that backspace = ^H
and so on. It may be that the child proc doesn't inherit the
stty setting with thr KDE term whereas it does with Gnome's.
Solution:: go back to Gnome.

If anybody has other ideas, please lemmee know!

gary


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