lmb@sat.uucp (Larry Blair) (02/08/91)
Following the instructions on the man page for xmodmap I added: XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^? to my .Xdefaults. This doesn't seem to have any effect. Why not? Another strange thing that happened is that while I was trying to work around this problem, I stuck a: stty erase ^? in my .kshrc. The result was that the xterm window will appear and then, before any prompt appears, disappear. -- Larry Blair apple!sat!lmb lmb%sat.uucp@apple.com
njw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nick Williams) (02/12/91)
In article <1991Feb07.184847.10892@sat.uucp> lmb@sat.uucp (Larry Blair) writes: > Following the instructions on the man page for xmodmap I added: > > XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^? > > to my .Xdefaults. This doesn't seem to have any effect. Why not? I had this problem in our system for a while. I eventually found out that the problem was due to me sticking the actual control character in the file, instead of the textual version, `^' followed by `?'. It now works fine. [ Standard (!?) X stuff, i.e. distribution libraries & clients, with the 7.0.3 server available from ftp. ] -- Nick Williams. "It's all gone... *Horribly* wrong." njw@doc.ic.ac.uk ... Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2B7. UK njw@athena.mit.edu ... Project Athena, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139. USA Disclaimer: Any opinions or views you may find hiding in this message are mine: noone else wants them.