Backspaces converted to ^? -- want to get rid of ^? -_-...

[Jordan Gordeev]

youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007, youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:
>>
>>>       Ok, this happens regularly on my FreeBSD box at home when I'm not
>>>       su'ed in as root using vim, or the SuSe box at work when I VNC 
>>> into
>>>       it (using vim once again), and I'm frankly quite tired of lame
>>>       control characters screwing up my day. Is there any way to fix 
>>> this
>>>       behavior so pressing backspace erases a character, not prints 
>>> out a
>>>       ^? character?
>>
>>
>> This is generally a function of your terminal emulator or xterm and is a
>> carryover from old DEC terminal's stupid keyboard mappings.
>>
>> The attached XTerm file put in $HOME/XTerm will get xterms to send ctrl-h
>> from the backspace key.  Other programs like putty typically have a
>> keyboard configuration that permits setting the backspace key to send
>> either ctrl-H or a DEL character.
>>
>> I leave it as an exercise for the student to figure out my other 
>> tweaks in
>> this file :-).
>>
>> Bill
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> 
> 
> Hmmm... you have a lot of different tweaks in there.
> I'll definitely implement the delete thing as soon as possible.
> Thanks!
> -Garrett
> 
The correct way to fix is to use stty(1).
For example: stty erase2 '^?'