[plug] terminal erase and del chars

Ryan ryan at is.as.geeky.as
Tue Jul 29 16:39:13 WST 2003


And this?:

http://sunsite.ui.ac.id/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html#s5

That has some things that ring more bells than the previous link I
posted :)

Ryan

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 16:28, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I was hoping someone on PLUG might know how to change the erase and del 
> chars used by xterm. I've got an app here that doesn't correctly follow 
> termcap/terminfo and wants backspace to send ^H and del to send ^? 
> instead of the (strange) linux backspace=^? and del=^[[3~ .
> 
> Alas, modifying it to just follow the darn termcap won't be possible. It 
> has its own undocumented termcap file format, you see...
> 
> Craig Ringer



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