@ does a return while in xterm

[Josh Dalziel]

This is a new one for me. When i type the @ key it starts a new line. Trouble shooting has been fun cause I can not search my profile for @. Anyone seen this before or know how to solve it.

Thanks

Joshua

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi Joshua,

Your stty setting of 'kill' has been set to @ (stty -a). So, whenever you type @, it is killing the current line.

To change it for the current terminal, do

stty kill ^U (ctrl-v ctrl-U)

To make it a permanent setting, do

stty kill ^U < /dev/ttyconf

Login again your @ should work fine.

-Sri

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I suspect that the eol (end of line) character has been changed from a cntl-@ to an '@'. Do a stty -a and that should show you your problem.

[Josh Dalziel]

You both were correct! I am not even going to ask how you knew that off the top of your head so fast. Thanks so very much though!