Re: Backspace is delete
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:38:55AM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
| On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 08:52, Colin Watson wrote:
| > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:47:38PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote:
| > > Maybe I'm just being a clueless newbie, but I can't find where to put the
| > > ^H back into my Backspace in X text applications.
| >
| > You should probably read /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Search
| > for "Why doesn't my backspace, delete, or some other key work?". It's
| > possible you've got too many uses of xmodmap and .Xresources
| > *Translations - backspace and delete *should* work correctly out of the
| > box now.
|
| at least for me on sid, emacs is unusable if I telnet into a solaris
| box, b/c everytime I hit backspace I get ctrl-h which to them is help.
| I haven't investigated it (as I don't telnet into solaris boxes often)
| but its something I've noticed.
Yeah, solaris is rather broken in several ways (the termcap being
another one). I use solaris quite frequently since that is the system
at school my mail is on (and I don't have a good connection with my
debian box, can't ssh to it).
In my .bashrc I have
######
# make logins from home work decently
# stty erase ^? # the Backspace key, 0xff
# stty erase ^H # ASCII BS, 0x08
stty erase ^?
stty intr ^C
To fix the terminals. This works unless I actually go to the lab and
use a sun terminal.
I don't use emacs so I don't know if this will help you or not, but it
works for me :-).
-D
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