Re: [SLE] backspace key and TERM var

Colin Fraser wrote:
Mark Hounschell wrote:
Mark Hounschell wrote:
Can anyone tell me which terminal type to set the env TERM variable to
that would give be an 0x08 instead of a 0x7f when I hit the backspace
key on SuSE-10.0? In konsole when I select the vt420pc terminal type it
does the job. I need to do the same thing on a normal linux console.

From memory (you'll have to check the syntax):
stty erase '?H'

Cheers,

Colin


Actually that would be

$stty erase "^h"

but that no longer does it.

To see what is returned, Enter ^V then the key. The value returned will
be displayed.

Mark

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