Tony Houghton wrote:
> I'm having trouble with the erase key. For some reason Delete has
> stopped working too now (I think it comes up with ^?) and stty erase ^H
> doesn't work any more (and yes I am pressing backspace to get the ^H).
> Sometimes backspace produces something else besides ^H. Sometimes it
> works as erase :-/.
> 
> Is there any way of getting the command in my .profile by escaping the
> ^H? I tried stty erase \x08 as a command, but that stopped x from
> working.

ctrl-V before the ctrl-H is an escape that works under many
circumstances, though not of course in emacs as that would only page
down, or a backslash.

Patrick