cant backspace while entering input for "read"

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. In a script, or in terminal, enter "read -p "blah" blah"
2. When trying to type input, you can't backspace. 
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
You can't backspace. You see a ^H instead

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Newest cydia release, 4.0

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by happyb...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2010 at 10:41

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Also happens at ncftp

Original comment by dave.sto...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2010 at 12:32

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If I remember right, it's done this forever. Even on 3.x

Original comment by ryanbobp...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2010 at 9:36

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Doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed.

Original comment by happyb...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2010 at 5:21

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You can usually work around this by running: stty erase ^V^H

I believe the default value of stty erase is "^?" which you can see by issuing 
"stty -a".  Perhaps we should change the defualt backspace key to send ^? 
instead of ^H? Thoughts?

Original comment by allen.po...@gmail.com on 18 Sep 2010 at 11:49

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Original comment by allen.po...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2011 at 11:21

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I#d rather see this as critical because it truely affects the way we're working

Original comment by dave.sto...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2011 at 11:52

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Original comment by allen.po...@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2011 at 12:12

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This issue was closed by revision r506.

Original comment by allen.po...@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2011 at 4:10

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