Re: Weirdness with backspace on python and bash

Christian Sacks <[email protected]> writes:

> On 20 Oct 2025, Daniel said the following...
>
>  Da> Thank you so much broham. It appears, though, I can only implement
>  Da> one. When I do:
>  Da>
>  Da> stty erase '^[[C' && stty erase '^DD' && stty erase '^H' ...
>  Da> the arrow keys still output the junk.
>
> You can't map the arrow keys to erase afaik, you'd have to do
> something else or leave them as just arrow keys, which is what I'd
> probably do if it were me.

If the arrow key can't be used for navigating a text field, said arrow
keys shouldn't be outputting junk. I was hoping for a way to avoid
that. Perhaps I should stop using bash scripts as doors and do some real
coding.

D
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