From: nickb@... (Nick Bensema) Date: 2001-02-21T16:10:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:11224] Re: better "gets"? In article <01022101202504.29486@adamant>, Nikita Proskourine 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. -- Nick Bensema ICQ#2135445 ==== ======= ============== BOY, THIS IS REALLY EXPENSIVE!