On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Last night I ran a major update that has been accumulating on my 7.1
> system, bringing everthing up to date with current update packages.
Did you get any messages saying that files were saved as xxx.rpmsave
or that files were installed as xxx.rpmnew during the update? There
are several packages/files that contribute to tty settings and xterm
behaviour, including /etc/profile (for bash) or /etc/csh.login (csh),
/etc/profile.d/*, /etc/inputrc (affects bash via the readline library)
and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (X resources, including the
"*VT100*backarrowKey" resource which tells xterm how to treat the <-
key by default).
> This involved updating all of X to newest update. The kernel, Mesa
> Xinitrc, modutils and quite a few other things. I didn't keep a
> record of everthing. A few more were all openssh packages, telnet,
> and etc.
>
> I suspect the X update to be the main thing causing changes.
It's possible. The other possibility is that you have something in
your dotfiles that's interfering with settings. Just to double-check,
have a look for .Xdefaults or .Xresources, and see if you have a line
like the one above ("*VT100*backarrowKey: false" or similar. Also it
might pay to grep for "stty" in dotfiles (~/.*).
> I'm seeing different behavior in vim, emacs and at an Xterm terminal
> with the keyboard and fonts that get selected.
Yeah, that figures. At the command line, bash and tcsh will both see
either ^? or ^H as "backspace" whereas vim will go by the tty settings
which is a right pain when using RH as desktop and talking to Solaris
boxes at work :o)
> An example: Previous to update, pressing bckspc while in insert mode in
> vim would delete to the left, moving the cursor to left. Now I get
> ^? with the same action. Default font for emacs has changed.
>
> stty -a still shows erase set to ^H as before.
That should be set to '^?' not '^H' ... that's the problem. Are you
setting that yourself somewhere, or can you see where it's being set?
> Before beginning to medal with everthing like fontpath, the catalogue
> settings of xfs, or terminal settings, which in my experience can end
> up a pandoras box and cause all kinds of unforeseen problems.
That shouldn't be a problem, the default font for xterm is "fixed"
and that's the same pretty much whatever you do to /etc/X11/fs/config
but feel free to tweak the order of the catalogue in there.
> I wondered if anyone else here has had a similar experience recently
> and can help direct my meddling a little bit.
Yes, backspace and delete problems were rife for a while, but I was
under the impression they were all solved.
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