Backspace key which produces ^? 1

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

When pressing the backspace key, ^? is displayed. What can I do to get the expected behavior?

Regards,
Dan

 

[ddrillich]

All,

stty erase 'Press backspace' does it.

How do I do it for the up and down arrows?

Regards,
Dan

 

[SamBones]

What shell are you using?

In the Korn shell you can issue these commands...

# Set-up keyboard arrow keys to function like arrow keys (up,down,left,right)
     alias __A=^P
     alias __B=^N
     alias __C=^F
     alias __D=^B
     set -o emacs

...and it will enable command line recall and editing with the arrow keys. It basically makes the Korn shell act like bash command line editing.

Note, the ^P is actually Ctrl-P, ^N is Ctrl-N, etc.

 

[ddrillich]

Thank you Sam. I was using the Korn shell. Switching to bash makes sense.

Regards,
Dan