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

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:

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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.

The correct behaviour for the backspace key is to send the BS character, 0x08 aka ^H.

^? I suspect is the DEL character, 0x7f, which is unprintable (or prints as a space). I would expect the Delete key to produce a DEL character.