On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 20:28:04 -0600 (CST),
jfron <jfron@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> well, then it generates the propper escape codes in sh and csh.  
> additionally, the delete key doesn't work propperly either (it works, but 
> it doesn't delete on screen, just in the command line buffer(?), nor does ^W 
> work.

You can change these control code behavior by stty.

> an additional related question, i just compiled zsh 3.0.1, and the arrow 
> keys don't seem to be generating the propper sequence at all.  they 
> simply result in A,B,C, and D.

Probably zsh thinks it's getting sequences of some kind of meta
characters, like Meta-0 A, Meta-0 B, etc.  Not sure, not having used
zsh at all, though.

Ken