csh is root's shell?

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Thu Oct 7 09:03:50 PDT 2004


On 2004-10-07 09:05, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com> wrote:
> > http://www.eprogress.bg/~rootcho/dot.tcshrc
>
> One weirdness I ran into is with the backspace key.  It no longer works.
> It appears that that this line kills that functionality:
>
>         # DELETE : delete char at cursor position.
>         bindkey ^?              delete-char

The two special characters ^H and ^? are better be left alone most of the
time.  I've seen terminals that use one of these two as the "backspace" key.
So, let's leave this particular detail open to the setup of the terminal.

- Giorgos



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