new xterm and erase setting

[Satish Balay]

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 = ^?)

Satish