Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:25:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour |
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 zefram@fysh.org wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > >Your xterm is not following Linux policy - this is a solved problem in > >Linuxspace. Debian bit the bullet a few years ago and did the neccessary > >deed to make all their terminal emulators and console match. > > So Linux policy is to support only terminals that generate ^? for > backspace?
No.
Linux supports everything. Try doing a "man stty".
But the default behaviour is ^?, which makes emacs happy, and also happens to be the default mode for most real vt100 terminals out there.
If you have a terminal that really really wants ^H, just do
stty erase ^H
and Linux will happily believe you.
Linus
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