I'd like to fix this frequent problem where the shell on a remote server thinks my terminal's backspace key is ^? and sometimes it thinks it is ^H , and happens to be incorrect and outputs the wrong character when I press backspace. If I set it to ^H or ^? with stty erase ^H or stty erase ^? in my .bashrc file, and use some other terminal to access the server, it often ends up wrong. So I'm stuck having to manually type stty erase [whatever] to fix it when I notice the backspace key is wrong. What I'd like to do is bind both ^? and ^H to backspace, because if I can do this, I can just add it to all of my .bashrc files, and it will certainly end this nightmare. Is this possible? If so, how?
fragsworth asked Sep 4, 2013 at 22:28 fragsworth fragsworth 485 2 2 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 14 14 bronze badgesThis page has all the information you will ever need on this issue; I suggest you read it. Now, if you are using bash , it should be enough to create an ~/.inputrc file containing these lines:
"\e[3~": delete-char # this is actually equivalent to "\C-?": delete-char # VT "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~": end-of-line # kvt "\e[H":beginning-of-line "\e[F":end-of-line # rxvt and konsole (i.e. the KDE-app. ) "\e[7~":beginning-of-line "\e[8~":end-of-line As an added bonus, they will make Home and End work as well.