Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >Try hitting Control-V then your Backspace key while inside of your >shell (or inside of a non-curses app, such as telnet). It'll spit out >what your backspace character is (usually ^? or ^H). > >It's highly possible it's supposed to be ^? instead of ^H. > >If it shows up as ^H, I have no other ideas. > > > '^v backspace' yields "^H" and '^v delete' yields "^?". The delete button functions properly in vi but not the backspace. I've also had experience when paging through the history in 'sh -E' that will show the correct history but when you attempt to cursor back through and make a change some characters from a previous command are seen jumping through where the cursor has just moved. Weird MikeReceived on Tue Sep 21 2004 - 02:19:54 UTC
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