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Re: No backspace key in the psql command-line tool?

From
Nils Zonneveld
Date:

Rob Yampolsky wrote:
>
> Stupid question.
>
> How do you get the backspace key to work in the psql command-line
> tool?   Just echos ^H's. I'm running on Mandrake Linux 7.2, and it works
> from the system console, but not from a konsole X terminal (or from a
> vt220-based telnet session from Windows - using CRT's telnet).
>
> Curses programs don't seem to have this problem, but then again, it
> doesn't look like psql uses curses anyway.  But I have seen a similar
> problem when I telnet from a konsole window on my Linux box into an AIX
> box.
>

Try another telnet client.

Nils

Re: Re: No backspace key in the psql command-line tool?

From
"Brett W. McCoy"
Date:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Nils Zonneveld wrote:

> > Stupid question.
> >
> > How do you get the backspace key to work in the psql command-line
> > tool?   Just echos ^H's. I'm running on Mandrake Linux 7.2, and it works
> > from the system console, but not from a konsole X terminal (or from a
> > vt220-based telnet session from Windows - using CRT's telnet).
> >
> > Curses programs don't seem to have this problem, but then again, it
> > doesn't look like psql uses curses anyway.  But I have seen a similar
> > problem when I telnet from a konsole window on my Linux box into an AIX
> > box.
> >
>
> Try another telnet client.

A better answer:

In the shell, type

    stty erase ^H

It will make sure ^H actually is the erase (backspace) character.

-- Brett
                   http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
        -- Ashleigh Brilliant

Re: No backspace key in the psql command-line tool?

From
Rob Yampolsky
Date:
Thanks.  I told you it was stupid.  But not as stupid as it sounds.  I had tried
stty -a to find out what the erase character was (reported ^?), and had tried
typing that as my backspace, but it didn't work.

Oh well, stty erase ^H does work.

Thanks again,
Rob

"Brett W. McCoy" wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Nils Zonneveld wrote:
>
> > > Stupid question.
> > >
> > > How do you get the backspace key to work in the psql command-line
> > > tool?   Just echos ^H's. I'm running on Mandrake Linux 7.2, and it works
> > > from the system console, but not from a konsole X terminal (or from a
> > > vt220-based telnet session from Windows - using CRT's telnet).
> > >
> > > Curses programs don't seem to have this problem, but then again, it
> > > doesn't look like psql uses curses anyway.  But I have seen a similar
> > > problem when I telnet from a konsole window on my Linux box into an AIX
> > > box.
> > >
> >
> > Try another telnet client.
>
> A better answer:
>
> In the shell, type
>
>         stty erase ^H
>
> It will make sure ^H actually is the erase (backspace) character.
>
> -- Brett
>                                    http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
>                 -- Ashleigh Brilliant
>
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