Left/right arrow and backspace translation confusion

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Doug Lee <dgl at dlee.org> writes:

> characters intact instead of clearing them.  I have verified that the
> following are identical on both systems:

You didn't mention these (albeit unlikely) things:
    -- Different "console driver" (sc vs. vt) in kernel.
    -- Different "keymap" (see /etc/default/rc.conf).
    -- Different key "bind" settings in shell config files.