[Gllug] x.org 6.8.2 and backspace

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Thu Jun 23 10:15:12 UTC 2005


Ben Fitzgerald writes:

>stty erase ^H
>
>though obviously you'd have to generate ^H as a metacharacter with
>CTRL-v + backspace.

Actually, you don't. Since time immemorial, stty has been able to
interpret the two character sequence ^h (0x5E, 0x68) as Ctrl-h.
Just type it as you see it, and it'll automagically work.

Tet
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