In article <01022101202504.29486 / adamant>,
Nikita Proskourine  <nop1 / cornell.edu> wrote:
>Thanks Dave. The problem was entirely with my stty. Both gets and readline 
>now work as expected. I got them working with "stty erase ^H"... The erase 
>character was ^? and I never noticed that. Apparently bash doesn't use stty's 
>erase setting for deleting characters... deleting things in command line 
>works fine with either ^?or ^H as erase chars.
>
>I have to shoot myself for being so stupid. My problem is never checking the 
>obvious before searching for sources of trouble in more subtle areas.

Actually, if anyone deserves to be shot, it's anyone who contributed
to the rift between ^? and ^H, as well as that between ^M, ^J, and ^M^J.

American STANDARD code for information interchange, my ass.

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Nick Bensema <nickb / io.com>      ICQ#2135445 
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