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Re: Backspace key



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On Thursday, June  7 at 07:47 PM, quoth Adam Gray:
>Ok firstly I just noticed that actually the backspace key is working,
>but it's doing the function of the delete key (i.e. delete the next
>character).

Yup, that's what usually happens.

>Weirdly enough, doing ^H in mutt does work as a backspace.
>Doing `stty erase ^?` (i.e. backspace) doesn't do anything, and if I do
>`stty erase ^H` then the backspace works in xterm, but doesn't work in
>vim and still doesn't work in mutt.
>
>Confusing, eh? o_O

Hmm... just sounds like you've got some weirdness to straighten out.

Show me the output of this command:

     stty -a

~Kyle
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