On Jan 6, 12:55pm, rivie@ridgenet.net (Roger Ivie) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: About to put a sledgehammer through my keyboard

| > xterm*ttyModes: susp ^Z dsusp ^Y intr ^C quit ^\\ kill ^U eof ^D eol ^@ swtch ^@ erase ^?
| 
| Doesn't fix the problem; the character sent by the backspace key still
| jumps back and forth. Example:
| 
| > stench> stty erase ^X    <---- So you can see what backspace sends
| > stench> ^?^?             <---- here I press backspace twice
| > ^?^?: Command not found.
| > stench> ^H^H             <--- Here I scroll up and down with the
| >                               scrollbar, then press backspace twice
| 
| The character sent by the backspace key has changed! Why, and what do I
| do about it?

The ttyModes line is equivalent to the stty command. Looks like an xterm
bug to me. What does xkeycaps show?

christos