James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org> wrote:

> Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> > I'd like to know why --
> > > sooner or later, with enough indirection via ssh/rsh -- the backspace
> > > key starts being echoed as ^H when I mistype a search in less(1). 
> > 
> > less doesn't check "kb" capability and you have stty erase '^?' on
> > that system.
> 

> but if I try "man ls" while logged in and try to use the, um, delete key
> when searching, I get:
> 
> /^H
> 
> I think that confirms what you said.  Except that it works fine when
> logged in locally.  
> 
> What's the Right Thing to do?  

As your <X] key sends ^H, just set stty erase '^h' on the netbsd
system.  I don't think rsh propagates stty settings.  If you were
using ssh, it would propagate erase from your macos machine to the
netbsd machine.

SY, Uwe
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