[Novalug] Backspace/Delete in ssh annoyance

Russell Evans russell-evans@qwest.net
Thu Jan 18 23:41:30 EST 2007


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:33:17 -0500
"Joel Fouse" <joel@fouse.net> wrote:

> Don't have the time to spend digging at the moment, so I thought I'd
> see if anyone has a quick off-the-top-of-the-head solution, or can
> point me to such...
> 
> I have two RHEL boxes I ssh to on a regular basis, always from a local
> xterm.  On one, backspace functions as I expect (erase one char to the
> left of cursor), but on the other box it does a kill-word instead.
> If I only want to delete a single char, I have to use the CTRL key
> with backspace.  Gets kind-of annoying when I'm trying to correct
> cmd-line typos...
> 


stty sane cr0 pass8 dec


Thank you
Russell



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