ACME

[Charles Cash]

I don't know very much about unix, telnet, and the whole setup with acme,
but I do know i can't backspace over my commands at the prompt and that my
roommate can over his. How do i get such a useful feature?

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C. David Cash
gte...@prism.gatech.edu

[nick black and his emu]

Charles Cash consulted the pineal gland and uttered:

> I don't know very much about unix, telnet, and the whole setup with acme,
> but I do know i can't backspace over my commands at the prompt and that my
> roommate can over his. How do i get such a useful feature?

man stty

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[Peter Jensen]

Charles Cash <gte...@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
> I don't know very much about unix, telnet, and the whole setup with acme,
> but I do know i can't backspace over my commands at the prompt and that my
> roommate can over his. How do i get such a useful feature?

I was going to post some smart-ass response about reading the OIT
faq (http://faq.oit.gatech.edu/cgi-bin/mainmenu), but they don't have
that question. Neither does CNS (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cns/faq/).

argh. "stty erase ^H", where ^H is you pressing your backspace key.

-Peter

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"And I realized, damn, there's a lot of sausage in this class."
- Tracy w.r.t her CS4451 class with lots of guys and one girl (her)

[Ben Wong]

I don't know *anything* about ACME, but I do know that if you use tcsh
(instead of csh) as your Unix shell both backspace and delete will
work to edit commands on the command line.

Assuming ACME is set up like most other Unix systems, to change your
shell from csh to tcsh you would use the "chsh" command.

Changing your shell is not the "right way" to fix it since your
backspace key will still be messed up in other applications ("talk",
"emacs", "adv"), but you probably don't use those as often as you use
the command line. Also, switching to tcsh will let you edit your
commands using the arrow keys, which is a nice bonus.

A better fix is to hunt around in the preferences menu of your
terminal emulator to find an option labelled something like:

"Swap BackSpace (^H) with Delete (^?)"

Almost all terminal emulators (with the possible exception of
Microsoft telnet) let you do this.

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