On 06/15/08 17:31, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Sunday, June 15 at 06:16 PM, quoth Marianne Promberger:
> > both with TERM=xterm and TERM=xterm-256color, pressing Ctrl-v > > backspace shows up as: > > > > ^? > > Okay... (that's the same as \177) > > >> If not, is your termcap perhaps different? Try these two commands: > >> > >> infocmp -1 -L xterm | grep key_backspace > > > > key_backspace=\177, > > > >> infocmp -1 -L xterm-256color | grep key_backspace > > > > key_backspace=^H, > > HUH! Interesting. You have a broken xterm termcap file. Where did it > come from? > I have NO idea. :) I'm not going to figure this out now, works good enough for me. Thanks again for your help, and the comprehensive info! m.