howto alias a stty erase?

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:59:27AM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	is there a way of setty'ing "stty erase" to [backspace key"?
> > 	pretty sure that is the delete key.  i'm tired of having to hand
> > 	set it every time when i use the Konsole term.
> > 
> > 	thanks,
> > 	gary
> > 
> 
> to set this you need to specify command and key combination
> 
> command is : stty erase
> keycomb is : CTRL+v then press backspace key once
> 
> overall it looks like
> 
> # stty erase ^? 
> 
> Hope this helps.


	What worked was a simple alias:

	alias se="stty erase ^\?"

	but while this does save several keysttokes [ and hitting the ctrl key
	with "v" ], now I often forget to type ``se'' before i use vi or vim...

	:-)

	oh well... .

	gary


> 
> 
> thanks
> Saifi.
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