On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > Thanks for the tips. I have a hunch this is some basic thing that was > changed with the update mentioned in OP, so a little reluctanct to > start fussing with settings that have been good for over a year.
To be frank, I think you'll find it easier in the long run to switch, because the default in 7.2 and later is ^? for the backspace key, and the tty settings and xterm will behave like that. > Heres a small example of the problems that arise when you do: > I put this in .bashrc now to set erase = ^?: > stty erase ^? > seems innoucuous enough and does fix the behaviour in vim. But > unexpected things result, for example, when ssh into my own box from a > remote using scp to move files I get this now: > > stty: standard input: Invalid argument > > So I fix bashrc with: > if [ ! "SSH_TTY" ];then > stty erase ^? > fi > And away we go, who knows what other unexpected things will crop up. It's only really a problem dealing with Solaris, where the default appears to be ^H for backspace (and yet the console expects ^? for delete ... but that's another rant :o) > Also while setting stty erase ^? fixed that perticualr thing. At the > command line (in xterm) I used to be able to delete with delete key > too. Now I just get tildes (~~~~~~) That looks like a problem with the shell's key bindings (readline for bash). Have a quick look in /etc/inputrc for the following: "\e[3~": delete-char _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
