On Sun, 4 May 1997, Tony Houghton wrote:
> I tried putting stty erase "^H" in my .profile, typing the ^ and H
> literally, as advised by Kjetil Thomassen, but what seems to be
> happening now is that the backspace key is removing characters from the
> input buffer as wanted, but it's still coming up ^H on screen instead of
> backspacing the cursor.

I think that you also need to set the echoe flag with stty. I use
'stty erase ^H echoe' in my /etc profile and it seems to work in both the
console and xterms

Mike

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