reload rc.conf without rebooting

[Ben Munat]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-03-05 13:34, Ben Munat <bent at munat.com> wrote:
  > The delete key sends ^? when in a cons-25 terminal.  Depending on what
> your shell is, this may be remapped to perform whatever you feel suits
> you best.  But this is a shell configuration issue.
> 
> If you are using /bin/sh, keys like ^? may be remapped in ~/.editrc to
> perform whatever you want.  For instance, to remap ^? to delete the
> character under the cursor (what most PC users expect to happen when
> they press DEL), you can use:
> 
> 	bind ^? ed-delete-next-char
> 
> For the GNU bash shell, similar key remapping may be configured in the
> ~/.inputrc file:
> 
> 	"^?": delete-char
> 
> For the TCSH shell, you can use "bind" commands in your ~/.tcshrc.
> 
> And so on...

YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!! At f-ing last! My delete key works!

For the record, I'm using tcsh and it wasn't ^?... this is what worked in my .tcshrc:

bindkey ^[[3~ delete-char

I got the ^[[3~ with by pressing ctrl-v and then delete key.

thnx,

b