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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Backspace
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:35:32 -0700
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Have you ever had the backspace key not go backward on character erasing 
the previous character in Windows programs? Neither have I.

This has been bothering me for a while so... I have properly set stty 
erase ^h and from the bash command line backspace works as expected. But 
I often find places where this setting is not honored. I have an 
example. If I type less <filename> and at the less prompt I type "/' to 
find a string, but then make a mistake and hit backspace I get ^? 
instead. But ^h works. Why? Even the man page for less says that 
backspace is supposed to delete the character to the left of the cursor 
but instead I just get ^?.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Courage is knowing what not to fear.


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