On 6/20/2012 11:35 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Have you ever had the backspace key not go backward on character erasing the
previous character in Windows programs? Neither have I.
This has been bothering me for a while so... I have properly set stty erase
^h and from the bash command line backspace works as expected. But I often
find places where this setting is not honored. I have an example. If I type
less <filename> and at the less prompt I type "/' to find a string, but then
make a mistake and hit backspace I get ^? instead. But ^h works. Why? Even
the man page for less says that backspace is supposed to delete the
character to the left of the cursor but instead I just get ^?.
I see the same thing if I set stty erase (in bash) as you did and start a
new shell (bash again) from it. Of course, the parent shell outputs ^? for
any press of backspace. This behavior is the same for bash started from a
command prompt and from mintty.
Beyond personal preference, is there a reason that you don't just take the
default (i.e. don't set stty erase)? That works for me.
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Larry
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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