Georges Heinesch writes:
> I couldn't convince the "Backspace" key to perform the action known
> under AmigaOS, deleting the char left of the cursor. No shell or
> editor could do this using this key.
stty erase ^H
^H can normally be specified as two characters ('^' and 'H'), or
as one char (as in: C-v C-h in vi '').