[Linux-Anyway] Re: Bash stuff

  • From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:42:00 -0700 (PDT)

  Horror,

> >  Odd, since my recent install, I find that the Delete & End
> > keys aren't functioning on the cli, I get a ~ instead & a
> > system beep.

> Had something similar with vim. While backspace worked fine in
> bash, it'd produce ^? in vim. Googled on it and found that the
> solution was putting a line in /etc/profile.local saying: stty
> erase ^?

  Heh.  No such file in RH 7.2;-).

> I looked briefly into man stty and found this syntax, also
> found also you need to set stty eol CHAR (you'll have to find
> out what CHAR you need, probably the key code, and I have
> absolutely no idea where to look for it), but haven't found
> anything on delete.

> I have no solution, but this at least looks like a clue. HTH

  Hmm.  Might be, but again, I've no such file.  Wonder what the 
RH equiv is....

  Meph

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