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WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals
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Backspace Issues #41

Closed abenson closed 1 year ago

abenson commented 1 year ago

It's probably a terminal setting, but I haven't figured out which one. On some terminals, namely xterm under linux and the FreeBSD console (ssh'd in to my linux system right now), backspace will delete the entire word, but not delete anything if there's a space. Holding Control down while hitting backspace will delete characters. Any ideas on which setting to change? I've tried a few things with stty but no luck.

taviso commented 1 year ago

Hmm - the default has ^H as Delete Word and DEL (i.e. ^?) as Backspace.

If you do stty -a what is erase? I'm guessing it's ^H?

taviso commented 1 year ago

BTW, if you just want to get it working, I think you can toggle Backarrow Key in the XTerm menu (Ctrl+Left Click)!