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Re: The old story - backspace in xterms



On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:27:00PM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote:
> For some reason neither the Delete key nor the Backspace key work in my
> terminal windows (xterm, Konsole).  I have to use ^H on the command
> line.  The keys work however as expected in editors like vim, pine (in
> these very terminal windows), as well as in nedit.  There is nothing about
> the keys in my .bash_profile nor in my .Xdefaults.
> Can anybody tell me where and how the key settings are defined for xterms?
> --

Did you ever get an answer to this?  Use stty to display and define key
settings in terminal windows:

xio@mournblade:~$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 58; columns 166; 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;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-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
xio@mournblade:~$ stty erase ^H
xio@mournblade:~$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 58; columns 166; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; 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;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-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
xio@mournblade:~$ 

To type in the  you need to press  first, and then either the backspace key or .

Cheers,

xio

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