Re: xterm and backspace

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
try doin a CTRL-BACKSPACE. it depends what terminal emulation you got going. been a long time since i've used a stock 'xterm' on linux. i use gnome-terminal or kvt. nate On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jello >Hi. For quite a long while now, the backspace key in an xterm (running

xterm and backspace

2000-02-24 Thread jello
Hi. For quite a long while now, the backspace key in an xterm (running emacs or something) produces ^H rather than an actual backspace event. I was browsing the mail archives of -user and -devel, and I have the impression that this is in line with Debian keyboard policy. If that's so, and backspace