Re: Backspace problem on GDB

[Alm P <p_almitra at yahoo dot com>]

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:
> 
> Josà TomÃs Eterovic wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> 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
> 
> "C-H"  backward-delete-char
> 
> or
> 
> "C-?"  backward-delete-char
> 
> 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.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 

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