[CentOS] Backspace key is sending Delete after update to 4.4 (tcsh issue?)

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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Sorry for the top posting, but this is one of the cases there
I think it applies.

I also noticed this change. I use bash, so this is not exclusive to
tcsh.

I had to add "stty erase ^?" on my .profile to solve this one.

On the other hand, this MIGHT be the correct behaviour. When
using the console on older version, we would already have ^?.
When on xterm, we would get ^H. At least now the behaviour is
consistent.

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:11:03PM -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> Maybe it was always sending Delete and I didn't notice it, but I have  
> had the following in my .tcshrc file for ages (without realizing it):
> 
>     bindkey -b ^? i-search-back
> 
> Before the update to 4.4, hitting the backspace key at the shell  
> prompt deleted the previous character.  Now it activates the search  
> backwards function as instructed to do so by the bindkey directive.   
> The question is, what changed to cause this?  I never realized I had  
> that bindkey statement (I have never used the search backwards  
> function).  Is this a change in tcsh?  Has something changed in the X  
> server?  Here is the output from xev when pressing and releasing the  
> Backspace key:
> 
>   KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
>       root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 1593248, (136,112), root:(179,193),
>       state 0x0, keycode 22 (keysym 0xff08, BackSpace), same_screen  
> YES,
>       XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (08) "
>       XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (08) "
>       XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
>   KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
>       root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 1593358, (136,112), root:(179,193),
>       state 0x0, keycode 22 (keysym 0xff08, BackSpace), same_screen  
> YES,
>       XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (08) "
> 
> If I remove that bindkey command from my .tcshrc file, the Backspace  
> key removes the previous character as expected.  However, hitting  
> Backspace in vim inserts ^? into the file (with or without the  
> bindkey setting).  Anybody else seen this?  I've removed the bindkey  
> statement from my .tcshrc file, but it's still annoying me in vim  
> that I can't hit Backspace to delete the previous character...

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa
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