Jake Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 This has been driving me nuts for... oh, about six years now. When Telnet'd or SSH'd, whatever, into a *nix box (say AIX or Solaris for example - but I'm sure they're probably all the same) How the fack do you configure the settings so that your backspace and arrow keys work like a PC user would expect them to? I'm fine with using vi/ex keystrokes on the command line but it really REALLY pees me of when I make a tpyo and then end up with bloody ^H^H^H^J^K when I try to correct it. Please help me before I have a Jake-style tantrum at work and do something I'll regret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 stty erase ^H I believe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 The other option is to make you match your terminal emulation to what the host is expecting... set TERM=ANSI; export TERM {And all that jazz } Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted August 1, 2007 Author Share Posted August 1, 2007 THAT'S THE FELLA! I used to have it in my .profile but never had to change it again and forgot all about it. Thanks Gav! ..... Hey, hang on just a goddam minute there muscrat. What about my arrow keys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Oh crap, now you are asking a question.... Seesh, now I know why I got out of tech and became a scummy consultant *grin*.... Let me check my old notes, I can't remember which term emulation is the correct one. It could well be VT220, all depends on the host really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted August 1, 2007 Author Share Posted August 1, 2007 Don't worry mate. I'm well happy to know about stty erase ^H thing again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Here you go, VT220 includes arrow key emulation by all accounts, Solaris and AIX should have that natively unless they have been really hardened. http://www.nw.com/nw/WWW/products/wizcon/vt220.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted August 1, 2007 Author Share Posted August 1, 2007 I LOVE YOU MAN!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creative Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 w^h^a^t^t^h^e^h^e^l^l={ummm}=tv2000- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 The absolute best client out there, IMO is Eric's Telnet98. (Yep it does do ssh too). You'll love the screen resizing and emulation options. Fullscreen is neat too. I found that some clients were awkward to configure regardless. Putty was almost-there but not quite. ETN was spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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