xterm and erase character
Harry Putnam
reader at newsguy.com
Wed Jul 21 11:51:54 UTC 2004
With the changes that are being tried in xterm package, I seem to
need to manually set stty erase to ^H so that stuff works like I
expect it to in X. However setting that in .bashrc like:
stty erase
Causes bad behavior in text mode terminals. I get ^? for backspace
and ^[[3~ for delete key. I have to manually do ^H to get the
desired behavior of deleting one character to the left.
I've forgotten the standard test for a terminal to know if it is in X
or not but even knowing that I'm wondering if I could set a resource
in ~/.Xresources for xterm, so it would only happen in xterm running
in X. Not to have to bother with it in init files.
That is, is there a resource setting that will cause erase char to be
^H (control+H) that can be inserted into ~/.Xresources?
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