Re: Backspace doens't work when within screen

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 06:18:47PM -0000, eydaimon wrote:
> I'm on a debian linux system. I ssh to a FreeBSD machine. Backspace 
> works fine. I start screen, and when I type backspace, it produces a ~ 
> character. I use ^h most the time, but randomly on machines, backspace 
> will actually work. How can I fix this so backspace works on all 
> machines? 

I would check two things.  Are you sure your shell, or whatever
program you're running in screen is not setting your erase character
to something else?  If it's a shell, simply check with stty.

The ~ looks suspiciously like part of an escape sequence sent by
various keys.  Are you sure your erase character on Linux and
elsewhere is really backspace?  It's possible you have it set to
something like delete, and your terminal emulator is also configured
to send delete on backspace.

-- 
Paul Ackersviller


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