Re: Backspace in rxvt

["Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@inetarena.com>]

>>>>> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <jjorgens@bdsinc.com> writes:

    Jens> Andreas Tille wrote:
    >>  Hello,
    >> 
    >> I use rxvt instead of xterm because I read it is smaller and is
    >> able to do all things I want it to do. Additionally it has
    >> colors by default (nice to have a colored mc :-)).
    >> 
    >> But what to do to make <BackSpace> work as BackSpace and <Del>
    >> work as Delete??? In xterm this works as I want it to work, so
    >> the general keybindings seem to be OK.
    >> 

    Jens> If typing Backspace on the shell command line prints "^H"
    Jens> rather than doing a backspace, type the command "stty erase
    Jens> ^h" (make sure you type "^" and "h", not CTRL-h. Note that
    Jens> this only changes the current shell (terminal) so you'll
    Jens> probably want to put it in your .profile.

 I have the same problem--- in an `rxvt`, <-Backspace prints a '~', so
I have to use C-h to backwards-delete-char.  `stty` doesn't effect it
at all, as far as I can tell.  I think it's a bug in `rxvt`.

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Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com>
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Portland, OR  USA
Debian GNU 1.2  Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133


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