[TUHS] svr2 delete behavior

[Will Senn]

On 12/26/21 7:24 PM, Seth Morabito wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021, at 4:31 PM, Will Senn wrote:
>> Did svr2 have anything similar to modern behavior when handling the 
>> delete/backspace key where the character is deleted from the input 
>> and rubbed out? The default, like in v6/v7 for erase and kill is # 
>> and @. I can live with this, if I can't get it to do the rubout, 
>> because at least you can see the # in the input, but if I can figure 
>> out how to get it to rubout the last character, I'd map erase to DEL, 
>> which I believe to be ^U (but since it's invisible, it's confusing 
>> when it doesn't rubout).
>>
>> Will
>
> You should be able to do `stty erase \^H` and `stty echoe` to get the 
> rubout behavior you want with ^H (and of course you can combine them 
> into one stty line)
>
> -Seth
> --
>   Seth Morabito
>   Poulsbo, WA
> web at loomcom.com
>
>
Got it working:

    echo 'stty intr \^c erase \^? kill \^u echoe' >> .profile

relogin, and it works.

Thanks!
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