[NCLUG] Re: Backspace

[Gabriel L Somlo]

Rich,

Have you tried using a *different* keyboard ? When I type  Ctrl-V and then 
backspace, I get back  ^?   and when I type Ctrl-V and then delete, I get 
back ^[[3~ 

It looks like your keyboard sends a 'delete' keypress when you hit 
backspace.  What do you get when you do  Ctl-V Delete ?

Gabriel

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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Rich Young wrote:

> 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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