new xterm and erase setting

[Harry Putnam]

Satish Balay <balay at 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)