Re: Why the delete key is not working?

[Peter Beckman]

On Tue, 18 May 2010, Peng Yu wrote:

> My local machine is mac. I ssh to a romote linux machine, where I run
> screen. But the 'delete' key is not working anymore. To delete
> anything I have to use 'x'. Is it designed this way in screen? Is
> there a way to enable the 'delete' key?

 I had this problem, the fix was my shell on the remote box.

 I use TCSH, and had to use this snippet:

    switch ( $OSTYPE )
        case "darwin*":
            bindkey ^?      backward-delete-char
            bindkey ^[[3~   backward-delete-char                # for x
            breaksw;
        case "freebsd*":
        case "FreeBSD*":
            bindkey ^?      backward-delete-char
            bindkey ^H      backward-delete-char
            bindkey ^[[3~   backward-delete-char                # for x
            breaksw;
    endsw

 Maybe you're having the same trouble?  I ended up not having to use this
 after a few other tweaks to my system and terminal application.  Maybe
 this will help you figure out what your issue is.

Beckman
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