backspace munging via Konsole, sshtelnet
I asked that question which produced a thread of replies. The above has to do with mechanics-characteristics buttociated with web server...
Sometimes it's the smallest things that drive you crazy.
In Red Hat 4.0 Enterprise (or whatever), in Gnome, using Konsole, when I ssh or telnet to my ISP (The Well), my backspaces are heard as something, probably RUBOUT, that nukes whole lines I'm typing.
Don't forget LSOPTIONS. It will if $LSOPTIONS has "--color=auto" or "--color=always" set. In my case, it's aliased to "-bin-ls $LSOPTIONS", and...
backspace, and pretty soon I'm faster at that, than at the backspace key.
Dandy, and it becomes a habit.
It's even a habit that works well in text entry fields in Konqueror.
Then, though, I try to type into text entry fields in FireFox, or Mozilla, and ever shut. If I type two of them in a row, my text focal point is lost, and ends up somewhere else on the window.
I'd like help with both bogosities.
1) How do I get the Red Hat-Gnome-Konsole combination to transmit 0x09 when the backspace key is typed, instead of (probably) 0x7f? Is there a configuration control somewhere that gets rid of Richard Stallman's least wonderful gift to to the world of computing, backspace transmitted as DEL?
2) How do I disable the FireFox-Mozilla idiocy sidebar when that has been the "replacement for a broken backspace key" for about 25 years, and the Mozilla developers should have had better sense than to re-map it to some application-specific use?
Any help will contribute to unfrazzling my nerves.
xanthian, caught in a situation where no habit is correct, neither use of backspace, nor use of
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