[darcs-users] I've got hicc^H^Hups

Jean Jordaan jean at upfrontsystems.co.za
Fri Oct 8 14:16:13 UTC 2004


> Did you try 'stty erase ^?'?

Ah, that works, and delete still seems to work normally in the xterm
too. Is that something one can put in .bashrc and forget about, or
will it cause me to get hives later by jinxing miscellaneous other
apps?

 > What does 'stty -a' say?

jean at klippie fabrinox $ stty -a # This is before 'stty erase ^?'
speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon 
-ixoff
-iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 
vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt
echoctl echoke

> I suppose another solution would be for darcs to use readline or a
> similar library for text entry.

Oooh, yes! Please, pretty please! :)

-- 
Jean Jordaan
http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za




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