Re: BACKSPACE does not work on bash3.0

[Chet Ramey]

Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > >         > bash
> > >         > <ESC>k$<BACKSPACE><CTRL>C     <== this works for 1st time only
> > >         > <ESC>k$<BACKSPACE><CTRL>C     <== deletes instead of moving 
> > > left
> >
> >
> > Bash auto-maps stty special characters to their readline equivalents.  I
> > will probably have to make this a settable option in a future release.
>
>
> Chet, as a short-term fix before your next release, can you please tell 
> me which files do I have to modify in order to make "backspace" 
> move-back instead of deleting in "vi overstrike" mode?  It's getting a 
> bit annoying as I'm so used to using backspace to _back_space_.

You can look at rltty.c:_rl_bind_tty_special_chars() and modify it to
your heart's content.

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