Backspace giving ^?^?

[Mike_21]

How can I get rid of the "^?^?" characters when using my backspace key? I am using /sbin/sh...

Thanks

[James Beamish-White]

Type "stty erase ^?", where the ^? is the backspace key.

You can add it to your profile too.

OR, you can check your terminal util and see what it is using for DEL or BACKSPACE, and change it to the right one.

James

[Alex Glennie]

What's your enviroment ie do you see this on the system console, under Xwindows/CDE, via a dtterm,xterm other vt emultor ? Are you using a PC ?

what's the output from stty -a ->

erase ^H intr ^C kill ^U start ^Q stop ^S swtch ^@ susp ^Z

What behaviour are you after ...Backspace = Delete
?

ps Sorry 4 all the Qu's

[Mike_21]

stty -a

speed 9600 baud; line = 0;
rows = 28; columns = 80
min = 4; time = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U
eof = ^D; eol = ^@; eol2 ; swtch
stop = ^S; start = ^Q; susp = ^Z; dsusp = ^Y
werase ; lnext
parenb -parodd cs7 -cstopb hupcl -cread -clocal -loblk -crts
-ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl -iuclc
ixon -ixany ixoff -imaxbel -rtsxoff -ctsxon -ienqak
isig icanon -iexten -xcase echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh
-echoctl -echoprt -echoke -flusho -pendin
opost -olcuc onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel -tostop

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Mike,

Try this

stty erase "^?"

^ --> Shift + 6
? ---> ?

you can also try

stty erase "^H"

If it works, set the stty throuh your .profile

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

export TERM=hp

stty erase [backspace]
will set it right as mentioned.

Bill

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Mike

set your erase character through stty

stty erase

You should get rid of the problem.

-Sri

[Santosh Nair_1]

Just a suggestion, but you might want to do this in your .profile, i.e.:

if [ "$TERM" = "" ]
then
eval ` /bin/tset -s -Q -m ':?hp' `
else
eval ` /bin/tset -s -Q `
fi

if [ "$TERM" = "hp" ]
then
stty erase ^?
fi

-Santosh

[Frank Slootweg]

Do you perhaps use the Delete key instead of the Backspace key? The Delete key gives the behaviour which you describe. Backspace is octal code 10, while Delete is octal code 177.