Telnet Pro emulator, LINUX and filePro
Fairlight
fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Nov 2 14:59:59 PST 2005
With neither thought nor caution, Bill Campbell blurted:
> >
> >stty intr "^?" erase "^H"
>
> I strongly prefer "stty intr '^C' erase '^H' ", setting control-C
I strongly prefer it as well. Heck, I've been proclaiming to the linux
folks that that's The Way God Intended It for years (to no avail--they
swear it's standard vt100 behaviour and won't be changed, end of story).
The only reason I said to use ^? was because the OP explicitly complained
his -Delete- key wasn't acting as INTR. Prefereence didn't enter into that
half of my post.
> >And make darned sure you set your emulator to use ^H for backspace.
>
> Or manually type ctrl-h which doesn't take your fingers from the
> home keys :-).
In PuTTY 0.54 and later (first time I -noticed- it biting me by accident
if I had a lazy pinky I didn't release shift with) the shift-Backspace
generates ^? while Backspace generates ^H (assuming you configured it for
that), so you can get both from home row as needed.
It's both a blessing and a curse. Previous to the change, there was no
real way to get the character. After the change, I had to learn to never
have shift down while correcting errors (say, at the start of a sentence or
proper name) on the fly.
I guess it's more blessing than curse though. I can learn to do something,
but I can't force a program to do what it's not coded to do in the first
place.
mark->
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