Re: another newbie question "Ronald J Marchand" <ron@rojomar.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> "chabral" <chabral@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> > Is there a way to have the "backspace" key behave as it does in linux,
I
> > mean, deleting the character to the left of the cursor instead of
causing
> a
> > "break" or "abort" action?
> > I'm using the bash shell, but with sh is the same.
> >
> Are you on a terminal or a terminal emulator as opposed to the system
> keyboard?
>
> If you are using a terminal emulator, check the setup to see what being
sent
> by the backspace key.
>
> Ron
>
I'm using the Putty terminal emulator. I changed backspace settings from:
Ctrl-? (127)
to
Ctrl-H
and it worked. But the "Del" key continues with this behavior, instead of
erasing the character where the cursor is, it abort the line (the line is
not even stored in command history). |