rxvt as Bash login console
Linus Hicks
lihicks@gpi.com
Wed Oct 19 16:35:00 GMT 2005
Harig, Mark wrote:
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>
> I have also found that under some circumstances, the backspace
> key does not work properly. The following setting fixed that
> problem:
>
> rxvt*ttyModes: erase ^?
>
Bash seems to be very forgiving of what it uses as the backspace character, so
no problem there, but the above doesn't work for me when I am in, e.g. vim. This
is what works for me:
rxvt*backspacekey: ^H
And that matches what stty shows is set as my erase character.
Linus
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