Howto have Xterm backspace send CTRL-H
I have read many letters about this problem dating back to August 8,9,10 about
how the backspace does not function in an Xterm. There were lots of
suggestions about how to fix this but I cannot get my backspace to actually
transmit CONTROL-H.
As of right now, Backspace acts like the Delete key (^[[3~), which I think is
how Debian sets this up by default (??), but I have a delete key and really don't
have a use for two beside each other. Plus I feel like a dork when I don't look
up and I see my error still there sice Backspace did not actually travel
backwards.
I simply want my backspace to act like it does in a word processor (CTRL-H)
where it deletes to the left. My problem is in xterm only, telnet and ssh work
fine.
###here is 'stty -a'
$ stty -a
speed 9600 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
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-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
-iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt
echoctl echoke
Any ideas?
--Jay Barbee
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