Re: An old unix Issue the Delete key how do you fix it
"Valeriy E. Ushakov" <[email protected]>
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James K. Lowden <[email protected]> wrote: > Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote: > > I'd like to know why -- > > > sooner or later, with enough indirection via ssh/rsh -- the backspace > > > key starts being echoed as ^H when I mistype a search in less(1). > > > > less doesn't check "kb" capability and you have stty erase '^?' on > > that system. > > but if I try "man ls" while logged in and try to use the, um, delete key > when searching, I get: > > /^H > > I think that confirms what you said. Except that it works fine when > logged in locally. > > What's the Right Thing to do? As your <X] key sends ^H, just set stty erase '^h' on the netbsd system. I don't think rsh propagates stty settings. If you were using ssh, it would propagate erase from your macos machine to the netbsd machine. SY, Uwe -- [email protected] | Zu Grunde kommen http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/ | Ist zu Grunde gehen