Backspace key for pine/emacs

[Jerry A Clabaugh]

Here's a website entirely devoted to the backspace/delete problem:

http://www.ibbnet.nl/~anne/keyboard.html

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Derek Martin wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, David Kramer wrote:
> 
> > Pine/Pico uses ^H for backspace, but emacs uses ^H for help, and the
> > delete key backspaces. I normally have my ssh program (SecureCRT) map
> > backspace to delete, so I can use the backspace key to backspace in emacs.  
> > But to compose email with pine/pico, I have to press control-H manually to
> > backspace, which is awkward.  I'm constantly pressing the backspace key,
> > which is set up to the delete key, so it deletes instead of backspaces,
> > usually ripping my signature apart.
> 
> There are numerous ways to fix your problem.  The easiest is probably to
> map your backspace key to delete.  Some programs seem to have that
> hard-coded in as their erase character (like ftp).  Then, to tell pine
> to use delete instead of ^h add this line to your .profile or .bashrc (or
> wherever you put your start-up customizations):
> 
>   stty erase '^?'
> 
> After that, your problem should go away.  See the keyboard howto for
> details of how to remap your keys.  The howto's are all located at
> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP (though I think they've moved yet again, but
> the site is doing redirection).
> 
> 
> 
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> Derek D. Martin      |  Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
> Arris Interactive    |  A Nortel Company
> derekm at mediaone.net  |  dmartin at ne.arris-i.com
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