Backspace key in terminals

[Brian McGrew]

Not letting me input a '?' in a terminal.  

-brian


Brian D. McGrew { brian at doubledimension.com || brian at visionpro.com }
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ed Greshko
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 5:53 PM
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Subject: Re: Backspace key in terminals



Brian McGrew wrote:
> TERM=xterm in set | grep TERM
> 
> I try 'stty erase <hit backspace key>' but since backspace doesn't do
> anything I got an invalid parameter message.

Try...

stty erase ^\?

Regards,
Ed

> 
> Brian D. McGrew { brian at doubledimension.com || brian at visionpro.com }
> --
> 
>>YOU!  Off my planet! 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Burger
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 5:35 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Backspace key in terminals
> 
> Issue "set | grep TERM".
> 
> If "TERM" isn't "xterm" or something like "vt100", you might want to 
> "export TERM=xterm" or "export TERM=vt100".
> 
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Brian McGrew wrote:
> 
> 
>>I know I've ask this question before but I can't find the replies,
>>sorry!
>>
>>When I'm in an xterm, my backspace key does not work.  Only in xterm
>>thought.  What do I need to do to fix it?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-brian
>>
>>
>>Brian D. McGrew { brian at doubledimension.com || brian at visionpro.com }
>>--
>>
>>>YOU!  Off my planet! 
>>
>>
>>
> 

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