topic Re: Unable to type @ in Operating System - HP-UX

Unable to type @

Venkatesh babu sira_1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 19:32:05 GMT

All masters,
When i triy to type @ ,it will clears the entire line,if any one knows which environment setting it will greatly app.
HP 11i rp 2450,patches to latest.
If i type # it will clear one character.
Thanks
-VB

Re: Unable to type @

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 19:36:00 GMT

Hi Venkatesh

to type @ type cntrl v + @ this will not take you to the start of the line .

Manoj Srivastava

Re: Unable to type @

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 19:39:32 GMT

It appears that your stty delete line (kill) has been set to '@'. To confirm this do a stty -a. To fix: stty kill '^X' - to set it to a Cntrl-X. You may want to put this in your .profile iff stdin is a terminal.
if [ -t 0 ]
then
stty kill '^X'
fi

Man stty for details.

Re: Unable to type @

harry d brown jr — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 19:41:07 GMT

VB,

type in:

stty -a

and report back what kill and erase are set to.

live free or die
harry

Re: Unable to type @

John Poff — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 19:41:53 GMT

Hello,

Try typing:

stty sane

and see if that helps.

JP

Re: Unable to type @

melvyn burnard — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 20:06:49 GMT

you could try doing:
eval `ttytype -s`
NOTE the grave or back quote, not forward single quote!
This requests the terminal type and attempts to set up the correct comms settings for that tye of terminal.
Then do:
tset

Now see if it is ok. If not, you will have to check your stty settings, and in your login profile nmaje the appropriate changes to ensure they get set coorectly when logging in.

Re: Unable to type @

Venkatesh babu sira_1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 21:56:23 GMT

1)to type @ type cntrl v + @ this will not take you to the start of the line
I can't type like that ctl v+shift 2(for @)
I am using bash

stty -a gives

intr = DEL; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = @

2)stty sane
does n't work(@ still clear line)

3)eval `ttytype -s`
tset also does not work ,but it set kill to ^j

same as above
One thing i am not able to type ctrl X

Thanks
-VB

Re: Unable to type @

Frank Slootweg — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 07:57:15 GMT

As Clay mentioned, you will have to type Ctrl-X as *two* characters:

stty kill '^X'

I.e.: single (forward) quote ('), carrot (^), X and a closing single(forward) quote (').

As far as I know, most HP setups (see for example the sample /usr/newconfig/.profile file) use Ctrl-U, i.e.:

stty kill '^U'

Re: Unable to type @

Deepak Extross — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:27:21 GMT

Try escaping the "@" with the "\" escape character. For example, insted of typing "abc@xyz.com", type "abc\@xyz.com"

Re: Unable to type @

harry d brown jr — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:46:38 GMT

VB,

You need to change intr and kill:

stty intr ^C
stty kill ^U

To get the

^C

hold the control key down (ctrl-v) and press

v

then (while still holding the control key down - ctrl-c) press

c

Then do the same for

^U

stty kill (CTRL)v(CTRL)u

live free or die
harry

Re: Unable to type @

Frank Slootweg — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:55:23 GMT

For stty(1), the 'difficult' "hold the control key down and press v then (while still holding the control key down) press ..." is not neccessary: stty(1) understands control characters as *two* 'normal', but escaped, characters, carrot (^) and the desired control character (for example U). From the stty(1) manual page:

> If c is preceded by an (escaped from the
> shell) circumflex (^), the value used is the
> corresponding control character (for example
> ^d represents Ctrl-d); ^? is interpreted as
> DEL and ^- is interpreted as undefined.

And the specific example:

> EXAMPLES
> The command:
>
> stty kill '^X' intr '^C'

Re: Unable to type @

Bill Hassell — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 11:16:25 GMT

The real problem is that you aren't getting stty run as part of your login procedures. Are you using a 'real' terminal such as an HP 700/9x with a serial cable, or are you using a terminal emulator on a PC? If the latter, are you using telnet to connect or are you using Xwindows? Xwindows (the CDE manager) defaults to ignoring all profile steps and therefore bypasses /etc/profile, /etc/csh.login, .profile, .kshrc, .cshrc, .bashrc, etc...

So if you are using a graphics environment, this is likely the case--you are inheriting the standard hard-copy (as in teletype) settings and these need to be overridden. The standard HP-UX .profile will handle this as you login (using the POSIX shell). You can test this by simply running this .profile in source mode:

$ . ./.profile

Note the isolated dot prior to .profile as this is the secret to making settings stick in the current shell. For other shells, add these lines to the default startup file:

/sbin/stty erase "^H" kill "^U" intr "^C" eof "^D" -parity ixoff
/sbin/stty susp \^Z dsusp \^Y

These will set the 'standard' control keys. Be sure to put these lines into your shell's standard startup profile *and* configure the shell to run this script. In CDE, .profile is *NOT* run by default, read the last lines in $HOME/.dtprofile and follow the advice. Be sure to test that your profile is actually getting read. Also make sure that your $TERM is getting set correctly in your profile:

eval $(/sbin/ttytype -s)

Re: Unable to type @

Venkatesh babu sira_1 — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 15:54:17 GMT

Thanks folks it works now ,u r all great.
-VB