Re: [vox-tech] My delete key doesn't work, my delete key doesn'twork

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@beMAPSlial.ucdavis.edu>]

i haven't been following this thread, but he prolly meant:

        stty erase ''

to immediately map the backspace key to backspace+erase.

note you may or may not need to issue a control-v before pressing the
backspace key.  that escapes whatever meaning it had before you issue the
command.

pete

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jay wrote:

> When you say "For immediate gratification, check the terminal window settings"
> what are these, where do you check them?
> 
> Jay Strauss
> jstrauss@bazillion.com
> (h) 773.935.5326
> (c) 312.617.0264
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us>
> To: <vox-tech@franz.mother.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] My delete key doesn't work, my delete key doesn't work
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jay wrote:
> >
> > > Simple question from a simpleton,
> > >
> > > My delete key does not work when I log on as me (i.e. jstrauss), but it does
> > > when I log on as root.  I tried making my environmental variables look like
> > > root's.  So far I have check my stty -a, .bashrc, and my environmental
> > > variables.
> >
> > Look at how your terminal window is started up.
> >
> > For immediate gratification, check the terminal window settings... there
> > is usually a way to map the backspace key (the one above the "enter" key
> > on the main keyboard) to "delete" or "backspace", and yours is probably
> > set to "backspace" when you log in as root, and "backspace" when you log
> > in as jstrauss.