Running stty -a on my Mac showed erase to be ^?. (I later changed
this to ^H, which it now reads.)
Running stty -a on a remote linux server shows erase to be ^H.
In reading more about this problem, it seems like ^? is a better
standard, since ^H can legitimately be a command for terminal apps.
But ^H is the default on a couple of hundred linux servers here, as
well as by the sysadmins who run linux, and it will probably be that
way in future linux versions. So, I'm stuck with it indefinitely.
I doubt me changing it on my machine is going to affect me much,
since unfortunately, there are no managed Mac or BSD machines here at
work. If I did get a Mac server at home (which I'd like to!), I'd
probably change the server to match linux terminal behavior, because
it would either be: change Mac server once or be frustrated everytime
I used it, since I have to keep my term setting like this for work
anyway.
Thanks for the help everyone,
Kasey
On Mar 19, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 20 Mar 2007, at 00:45, Kasey Speakman wrote:
The 'stty erase ^H' fixed it. Why is '^?' the default erase and
not this?
The default erase is not '^?', it's just displayed like that
because the shell on the other side doesn't understand it. There
are about as many different "standards" out there as there are
combinations of shells and OSes, so it is fairly predictable that
if you throw a new system in the mix you will have to modify some
things on either the source or the target to get the same behaviour
you were used to before.
It's also quite likely that some other things (which you may or may
not use) now do not work as designed anymore because they actually
expected the other code.
Jonas
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