Re: Backspace key

2000-08-30 Thread Vidiot
Romain Kang posted: >Regarding Vidiot's complaint about bold and underline properties being >colorized, I discovered how to get the correct behavior several months >ago. Put this in your .Xdefaults: > >! RH 6.2 oddities >XTerm*underLine: on >XTerm*colorBDMode: off >XTerm*colorULMode: off Thanks

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-30 Thread Romain Kang
Regarding Vidiot's complaint about bold and underline properties being colorized, I discovered how to get the correct behavior several months ago. Put this in your .Xdefaults: ! RH 6.2 oddities XTerm*underLine: on XTerm*colorBDMode: off XTerm*colorULMode: off Regarding .inputrc, I believe the r

RE: Backspace key

2000-08-29 Thread Uncle Meat
On 29-Aug-2000 Ward William E PHDN spoke something to the effect: > Heh > > Every machine that I've upgraded to 6.2 from 6.1 now has a broken > backspace. > All I ever get from Backspace now is a tilde (~). > > I have to hit h to backspace/delete now. While the EXACT SAME > ENVIRONMENT (li

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-29 Thread Vidiot
hrc >or .bash_profile which would have affected the backspace key. No >custom definitions of the backspace key... > John The RELEASE-NOTES said that terminfo and termcap was modified to make backspace and delete more consistant. Someone's warped idea of consistant :-) MB -- e-m

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-29 Thread John Aldrich
on the hard drives. :-) However, I *did* copy my home directory back after I'd installed, so maybe that made a difference? Dunno. Shouldn't have. I looked and I don't see anything in .bashrc or .bash_profile which would have affected the backspace key. No custom definitions of the bac

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-29 Thread Vidiot
John posted: >Well, like I said, I use bash and did a fresh install of RH 6.2 over >my RH 6.0 and have no problems, either with xterm or command line. I >really think it must be something to do with one of two things: >1) you're not using BASH as your shell, but xterm uses bash by >default(?) I

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Vidiot wrote: > John posted: > > >Must be something unique to the upgrade process. Unfortunately, I was > >forced to do a fresh install as I didn't have enough room on / for > >the temp files needed for an upgrade. Anyhow, backspace really does > >delete the previous characte

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-29 Thread Vidiot
John posted: >Must be something unique to the upgrade process. Unfortunately, I was >forced to do a fresh install as I didn't have enough room on / for >the temp files needed for an upgrade. Anyhow, backspace really does >delete the previous character for me... The command line didn't give me pr

RE: Backspace key

2000-08-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > Heh > > Every machine that I've upgraded to 6.2 from 6.1 now has a broken backspace. > All I ever get from Backspace now is a tilde (~). > > I have to hit h to backspace/delete now. While the EXACT SAME > ENVIRONMENT (literally... I have the

RE: Backspace key

2000-08-29 Thread Ward William E PHDN
000 12:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backspace key >John Aldrich wrote: >> >> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, David A. De Graaf wrote: >> > I've installed yet another RedHat 6.2 system and have again run afoul >> > of the Great BackSpace Key Fiasco. >>

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-28 Thread Vidiot
>John Aldrich wrote: >> >> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, David A. De Graaf wrote: >> > I've installed yet another RedHat 6.2 system and have again run afoul >> > of the Great BackSpace Key Fiasco. >> > [snip] >> I'm using 6.2 and here it

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-28 Thread David A. De Graaf
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, David A. De Graaf wrote: > > I've installed yet another RedHat 6.2 system and have again run afoul > > of the Great BackSpace Key Fiasco. > > [snip] > I'm using 6.2 and here it only deletes the last character

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-28 Thread Vidiot
>David, > >I've installed RH6.2 over RH6.1 over RH6.0 without getting this >behaviour. > >I've also installed RH6.2 on three 'clean' HDs, again without getting >this behaviour. > >What am I doing 'wrong'? ;-) > >Regards >Gustav My guess... you aren't using Xterms and VI, or you have your .Xdefaul

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread Steve Borho
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 11:49:15PM -0500, Vidiot wrote: > Steve Borho posted: > > >I've run into the same mess. It's only broken on xterm and vi. Try > >this: > > > >pc% stty erase  # -v > > > >And add this to .Xdefaults > >VT100*backarrowKey: true > > As mentioned, changing it to "XTerm

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread Gustav Schaffter
#x27;ve installed yet another RedHat 6.2 system and have again run afoul > of the Great BackSpace Key Fiasco. > > This fresh-out-of-the-box system has this aggravating behaviour: > I type a long command, but make an error. I backspace to correct it, > but instead of removing the mi

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread Vidiot
Steve Borho posted: >I've run into the same mess. It's only broken on xterm and vi. Try >this: > >pc% stty erase  # -v > >And add this to .Xdefaults >VT100*backarrowKey: true As mentioned, changing it to "XTerm*backarrowKey: true" has fixed the problem with VI inside my XTerms. All of t

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread Vidiot
Steve Borho posted: >I've run into the same mess. It's only broken on xterm and vi. Try >this: > >pc% stty erase  # -v It is already set for both me and root: speed 9600 baud; line = 0; erase = ^H; -brkint -imaxbel So that isn't going to help. >And add this to .Xdefaults >VT100*backar

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread Steve Borho
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 11:14:40PM -0500, Vidiot wrote: > John responded: > > >On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, David A. De Graaf wrote: > >> I've installed yet another RedHat 6.2 system and have again run afoul > >> of the Great BackSpace Key Fiasco. > >> > &

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread Vidiot
John responded: >On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, David A. De Graaf wrote: >> I've installed yet another RedHat 6.2 system and have again run afoul >> of the Great BackSpace Key Fiasco. >> >I'm using 6.2 and here it only deletes the last character. >Perhaps your

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread Alan Mead
sage - From: David A. De Graaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 5:47 PM Subject: Backspace key : This fresh-out-of-the-box system has this aggravating behaviour: : I type a long command, but make an error. I backspace to correct it, : but instea

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, David A. De Graaf wrote: > I've installed yet another RedHat 6.2 system and have again run afoul > of the Great BackSpace Key Fiasco. > > This fresh-out-of-the-box system has this aggravating behaviour: > I type a long command, but make an error. I bac

Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread David A. De Graaf
I've installed yet another RedHat 6.2 system and have again run afoul of the Great BackSpace Key Fiasco. This fresh-out-of-the-box system has this aggravating behaviour: I type a long command, but make an error. I backspace to correct it, but instead of removing the mis-typed character

Re: Backspace key not working in Netscape

1998-06-08 Thread Paul Kersting
y Dell XPS 300 PII system. After > > the > > reinstallation, I found that the backspace key no longer works in > > netscape > > 4.05. It works everywhere else. I am a newbie and need some help > > figuring out > > what I did wrong. Is it possible that this co

Re: Backspace key not working in Netscape

1998-06-08 Thread Clemens Adler
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Leston Buell wrote: > I'm curious... ¿Where did you "choose" the US English 101 keyboard, as you > mentioned? I'm asking, because i do a lot of work in languages other than > English and would like to be able to easily access the Latin-1 character > set like i can with the US

Backspace key not working in Netscape

1998-06-07 Thread Paul Kersting
I recently had to reinstall RH50 on my Dell XPS 300 PII system. After the reinstallation, I found that the backspace key no longer works in netscape 4.05. It works everywhere else. I am a newbie and need some help figuring out what I did wrong. Is it possible that this could be due to

RE: Backspace key not working in Netscape

1998-06-07 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 07-Jun-98 Paul Kersting wrote: > I recently had to reinstall RH50 on my Dell XPS 300 PII system. After > the > reinstallation, I found that the backspace key no longer works in > netscape > 4.05. It works everywhere else. I am a newbie and need some help > figuring out