term problem?

[Chuck Dugan]

I'm having a problem editing the crontab or any other file for that matter. I tried to create an entry that sends an email notification. When I try to enter the "@" sign the cursor moves to the beginning of the line and another keystroke will delete the line. I thought it was a term problem, but I've tried vt100, xterm and hpterm and it doesn't seem to help. I'm using the posix shell, but I've tried ksh also. Help!

[Andy Monks · Accepted solution]

looks like your stty settings are wrong.

do 'stty -a' and you'll see that '@' does a kill. You'll need to change it with :-

stty kill

[Chuck Dugan]

That was it, Andy, thanks!