From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31325 invoked by alias); 29 Oct 2009 00:28:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 31317 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Oct 2009 00:28:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from kuber.nabble.com (HELO kuber.nabble.com) (216.139.236.158) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:28:29 +0000 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1N3IsO-0002WA-0G for gdb@sourceware.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:28:28 -0700 Message-ID: <26104413.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:55:00 -0000 From: Alm P To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Backspace problem on GDB In-Reply-To: <47E18C73.1A27F870@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <47E17FA3.72F904E6@dessent.net> <47E18C73.1A27F870@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00410.txt.bz2 This was good information and it helped me a lot. Thanks. One note: You should put "^?" (quote-carat-questionmark-quote) instead of "C-?" which might be a typo in Brian's email. The latter kept deleting capital C. -AP Brian Dessent wrote: >=20 > Jos=C3=A9 Tom=C3=A1s Eterovic wrote: >=20 >> I don't have root access to the machine, so if you could tell me what >> can I put on .inputrc to fix that would be great >=20 > What does "echo $TERM" say and what terminal are you using? What gets > sent when you press backspace? You can find out the latter with most > shells by first pressing control-V then the key in question. It should > be either ^H or ^? if it's anything like most standard terminals. You > can fool around with putting something like >=20 > "C-H" backward-delete-char >=20 > or >=20 > "C-?" backward-delete-char >=20 > in your $HOME/.inputrc, or as appropriate for whatever sequence your > terminal sends for backspace. There should be a readline man page on > the system too that you can consult. >=20 > Brian >=20 >=20 --=20 View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Backspace-problem-on-GD= B-tp16164522p26104413.html Sent from the Sourceware - gdb list mailing list archive at Nabble.com.