Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm> writes:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
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 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.
Actually this affects other tools as well (not just emacs). For eg: in 'less filename' with '/' for search - I can't use the backspace key.
/fdsafa^H^H^H^H
However doing 'stty -a' gives the same values on both the old and new xterms. (so the old setting is still erase = ^?)
Maybe my `old' was older than your `old' hehe.
I was using 179 before updateing to.
I haven't had to piddle around with the erase setting for a very long time, but now with new xterm I get the behavior described, in emacs -nw.
I see what you mean about `less'. That has changed too. So this must be another setting... maybe the `-/+ ie' (initiate erase)
I did a diff of all the settings (from 'stty -a > log' ) and they were the same (except for the screen size of the 2 xterms)