[comp.sys.hp] Backspace Kills: Thanks + A Solution

ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere) (02/07/90)

In late December, I posted an inquiry. I was using a terminal in VT100
emulation mode with $TERM=vt100 on an HP9000/500, but was having trouble
getting the del and backspace keys to behave as I had come to expect
using HP terminals. I wanted backspace to back up the cursor ("erase" in
termio-ese) and I wanted del to "kill"

First, my thanks to those of you who responded to my plea for help.

I thought, in case someone else has to do this, you might want to know
how I eventually solved the problem. There was lots of trial and error
involved:

In the .profile, I put
		# set erase to DEL
		stty erase \^?
		# set interrupt to control-u
		stty intr \^u
		# have terminal echo erases
		stty echoe
		# have control-u be my kill character (instead of @)
		stty kill \^u
(The above ^ are actual carets).

This works find except in vi, so I added to .exrc:
		" backspace key in command mode does a backspace
		map ^? ^H
(The above ^ are control key indicators: control-?, control-H)

This results in backspace and del doing an erase, and control-u doing a kill,
which was as close as I could get to my goal and fine with me as I am not
much on using kill ...

Again, my profuse thanks to everyone who provided assistance. Having
the backup key cause kills, especially in vi, was making me old(er) and
gray(er).

Ray Liere
Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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