xterm and emacs keybinding issue in FC3

Chris Rouch crouch at pobox.com
Tue Jan 18 15:39:43 UTC 2005


On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:56:45 -0000
"J.Underwood" <J.Underwood at open.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> b) If i start an xterm and then ssh in to a remote FC3 box (from a
> localFC3 box), and then emacs -nw -q I see the same thing with Alt-x
> as above, and also the "old" problem with backspace giving out C-h
> instead of Del.

It's possible that your remote system has TERM set to vt100 instead of
xterm, and so erase is set to '^H' rather than '^?'. You can confirm (or
otherwise) this by running 'stty -a'. You might want to dig deeper to
find out why, but the workaround is to type (or add to your .bashrc)

export TERM=xterm

Regards,

Chris




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