On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ok, this happens regularly on my FreeBSD box at home when I'm not su'ed in as root using vim, or the SuSe box at work when I VNC into it (using vim once again), and I'm frankly quite tired of lame control characters screwing up my day. Is there any way to fix this behavior so pressing backspace erases a character, not prints out a ^? character?This is generally a function of your terminal emulator or xterm and is a carryover from old DEC terminal's stupid keyboard mappings. The attached XTerm file put in $HOME/XTerm will get xterms to send ctrl-h from the backspace key. Other programs like putty typically have a keyboard configuration that permits setting the backspace key to send either ctrl-H or a DEL character. I leave it as an exercise for the student to figure out my other tweaks in this file :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``Microsoft IIS has more holes than a wheel of Swiss Cheese after a shotgun blast'' -- John Dvorak
Hmmm... you have a lot of different tweaks in there. I'll definitely implement the delete thing as soon as possible. Thanks! -Garrett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
