On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:58:56 -0500
From: Harry Putnam <reader(a)newsguy.com>
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Subject: new xterm and erase setting
Mike doesn't seem to be paying attention to this somewhat dated
thread but in case anyone else is noticing.... it seems the erase
setting is different than previous xterms. I get
erase = ^?
looking at stty -a output.
I'm paying attention. I'm keeping track of everyone's feedback
to get a grasp of what all changes I need to make, so I can make
them all in one shot.
I think this means that the backspace key in emacs -nw will not
function as expected (without some elisp correction) but will call
`help' instead.
Very disconcerting when coding at full speed.
One can set erase to ^H in .bash_profile or similar but then there is
the need to keep up with that setting when changing users or etc.
I'm guessing the old defualt was `erase = ^H' but not really sure. I
don't see any settings in my rc files so apparently it didn't need any
setting before.
Keep posting problems you discover, and rest assured that I'm
watching. ;o) I'll update xterm sometime in the next 2 weeks or
so with various changes to restore things that seem to be the
most important to people. I'll post an email here at that time
to indicate what changes I've made also, and to get everyone to
test the new build and report back.
Thanks again to everyone for testing and discussing things on the
list. Much appreciated.
TTYL