Re: Stupid question: How to get Backspace working in TTY mode?

Jan> sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: kazz> You could just do "stty erase ^H", instead of using "Delete" for kazz> erase. kazz> You'd lose Backspace for help-command prefix but you could use f1. Jan> Then why do you have your backspace generating that code? Note that the Jan> problem is that most shell support ^H as erase regardless of the stty Jan> setting and thus hide the problem. Try something less intelligent that Jan> takes tty input and you'll see that ^h doesn't work there too. Jan> You can. Just set tty-erase-char explicitly. However you really don't Jan> want to do that. What you really want is to make your backspace key Jan> generate DEL instead. Jan> For instance in xterms you do this Jan> XTerm*vt100.translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f) \n\ Jan> <Key>Delete: string(0x1b) string([3~) Jan> Every terminal emulator worthy of the name has a similar option. All excellent answers. (Thanks, Jan!) They still doesn't answer the basic question why I can't rebind this key inside XEmacs, when I can rebind every other key. Note that I don't care about most of the issues raised by other people. I don't care about Help, specifically. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla