Re: The famous Backspace Key

["Matthew D. Sale" <mdsale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:06, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have RH7.3 and I'm using rxvt as my X11 terminal.
> > I connect via ssh(ssh.com client) to a RH9( that use openssh server)
>
>
> Why are you using the ssh.com client when the openssh client comes with
> RHL 7.3 and is fully open source and compatible with RH 9's openssh
> server?  I would try that first.
>
>
> > The problem I found is that when I'm inside the vi editor and press
> > the BackSpace Key, I see this caracter: ^H
> > In order to delete inside vi, I have to use Ctrl+H
> >
> > Is there a way to fix this?
>
>
> You might be able to with the 'stty' command.  See the man page -- I've
> always found this very confusing however.  I think what you're trying to
> do is map ^H to the 'kill' command or some such.
>
> --Jeremy
Try:

stty erase ^H

Matt