On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Johnny Billquist wrote:

: > > > > > echo "XTerm*ptyInitialErase: true" | xrdb -merge -

: Huh? No, the default erase character is not DEL.

The pty default for VERASE is indeed 0177.  See <sys/ttydefaults.h> for
yourself.

It's xterm(1) which is changing this to 0010 -- so you need to set the xrdb
setting above to tell it *not* to do that.

It's that easy.

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