Re: Vi backspace key problem

[Tim Edwards <tim registriesltd com au>]

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Quoting John Haxby <jch scalix com>:
>
> Yup, this is usually due to somebody being too helpful, knowing too 
> little, or
> both.  The erase character will usually be set to correct value (based on
> termcap, terminfo, or serial line settings), and if you are using ssh to
> connect to remote machine, this setting will be transfered too.

Yeah that was it, thanks. There was the following in /etc/bashrc:

if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ]; then
      if [ "x`tput kbs`" != "x" ]; then # We can't do this with "dumb" 
terminal
        stty erase `tput kbs`
      elif [ -x /usr/bin/wc ]; then
        if [ "`tput kbs|wc -c `" -gt 0 ]; then # We can't do this with 
"dumb" terminal
          stty erase `tput kbs`
        fi
      fi
    fi

When it was commented out and I re-logged in the erase value shown by 
stty -all had changed from ^H to ^? and the backspace worked correctly! :)

For some reason on our RHEL3 boxes the erase value is ^H and backspace 
works correctly, but on RHEL4 when it was that it was broken.
--
Tim Edwards