16 Sep
2008
16 Sep
'08
8:22 a.m.
On Sep 15, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
Which, being Unix, is part of the kernel 8-P
Yeah, I was tired and hip-deep in pthreads code when I wrote that,
trying to debug a process containing some ninety threads. My brain
was fried.
I set *everything* to use DEL by default...makes life much easier.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Well, the Linux kernel expects the erase key to be
ASCII 127,
and has the
backspace key generate said character. The default xterm
expects the erase
key to be ASCII 8 and doesn't know how to handle ASCII 127 that the
backspace key under Linux sends. And it drives me nuts!
That has nothing at all to do with the kernel; it's in the
terminal driver. You can
control all of those special character
interpretations using stty. You can make the "erase" character
anything you want, even a regular alpha character, like 'X':
Yes, I know about that. The problem I have is that I regularly
log onto
Linux servers using X-Windows (defaults to BS) under Linux
(defaults to DEL)
and Mac OS-X (defaults to BS) equally, so half the time, I'm in the
wrong
mode. I suppose I could come up with some shellrc magic to
automagically
handle that for me, but I would have to add said automagic shellrc
stuff to
over two dozen servers *and* make sure it works with Windows
clients as
well (which wouldn't surprise me if sends BS as well).