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From: bfox@sbphy.ai.mit.edu (Brian Fox)
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Subject: How do I use ^H as backward-delete-char
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Date: 9 Dec 89 15:55:28 GMT
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   Date: 8 Dec 89 11:21:10 GMT
   From: mcsun!hp4nl!orcenl!bengsig@uunet.uu.net  (Bjorn Engsig)
   Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands
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   I have bash 1.04 running on a sun3 with sunos4.  On one of the
   terminals I am using, the big key for char erase send a ^H and not
   DEL, the latter being rather difficult to reach without moving
   fingers away from the keyboard.

   How do I make ^H (C-H in emacs terms) work as the backward-delete-char?
   I'm running in vi mode, and don't need ^H to do backspace.

The erase character is automatically selected to do backward-delete-char
in readline.

   Any stty settings for erase before calling bash, will be overwritten with
   DEL.

This doesn't happen to me.  I type "stty erase ^h; bash", and the new
bash has C-h running backward-delete-char.  Please send the sequence of
commands that fail.

Brian