On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:38:55AM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote: | On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 08:52, Colin Watson wrote: | > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:47:38PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: | > > Maybe I'm just being a clueless newbie, but I can't find where to put the | > > ^H back into my Backspace in X text applications. | > | > You should probably read /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Search | > for "Why doesn't my backspace, delete, or some other key work?". It's | > possible you've got too many uses of xmodmap and .Xresources | > *Translations - backspace and delete *should* work correctly out of the | > box now. | | at least for me on sid, emacs is unusable if I telnet into a solaris | box, b/c everytime I hit backspace I get ctrl-h which to them is help. | I haven't investigated it (as I don't telnet into solaris boxes often) | but its something I've noticed.
Yeah, solaris is rather broken in several ways (the termcap being another one). I use solaris quite frequently since that is the system at school my mail is on (and I don't have a good connection with my debian box, can't ssh to it). In my .bashrc I have ###### # make logins from home work decently # stty erase ^? # the Backspace key, 0xff # stty erase ^H # ASCII BS, 0x08 stty erase ^? stty intr ^C To fix the terminals. This works unless I actually go to the lab and use a sun terminal. I don't use emacs so I don't know if this will help you or not, but it works for me :-). -D
