[NCLUG] Re: Backspace

[Rich Young]

I've been fighting this for a while now.  ^H backspaces, but the backspace 
key stubbornly refuses to do so.  When I type ^V backspace, it tells me 
^[[3~
and when I try stty erase ^V backspace (which spits out the above characters)
I get an error indicating that these are not polite characters to feed stty.

showkey indicates that backspace is indeed delivering keycode 14, and 
dumpkeys says that 14 = BackSpace (this last because I've edited 
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/defkeymap.map and used loadkeys -d to commit the 
change.)

Does the fact that there's a defkeymap.c in the same directory mean anything? 
 Issuing a loadkeys --mktable defkeymap.map > defkeymap.c (gotten from the 
comments atop defkeymap.c) doesn't seem to do anything, so I'm guessing not.  

Help much appreciated, as I'm going slowly batty fighting this small, 
persistent probl,m.

--Rich




On  Thursday 21 February 2002 09:47, you wrote:
> Haplo Patryn wrote:
> > You can always try this
> >
> > stty erase ^H
> >
> > or
> >
> > stty erase ^?
>
> That is, type "stty erase " then press the key that you would LIKE to
> cause a backspace.  It will usually generate the ^? or ^H for you.
>
> A 'friend' of mine always got a kick out of running "stty erase t" on my
> machines.  You couldn't exiT, you could logouT, and you couldn't run
> "sTTy" to fix it, you couldn't shuTdown, halT, or reseT...  Ah, those
> were the days...
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