xterm and erase character

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Sat Jul 24 06:07:52 UTC 2004


Ivo Särak <ivo at vendomar.ee> writes:

>> That is, is there a resource setting that will cause erase char to be
>> ^H (control+H) that can be inserted into ~/.Xresources?
>> 
>
> The very same error has implications to various parts of Fedora Core. 
> For the reasons take a look:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122815#c4
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115448
>
> I hope this will get fixed, soon.

Egad what a mess reported there.  But several posters seemed to be
saying the old xterm-redhat sidstepped most of the mess.

I wonder how we could use it for now until they settle on a fix or the
much more complicated other issues?





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