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Re: zsh in screen - bad erase key ^@ instead of ^H or ^?

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: Chuck <GBSCDcM8oX5F7qrd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: zsh in screen - bad erase key ^@ instead of ^H or ^?
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:27:30 +0000
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Chuck wrote:
> Unfortunately, bs really is sending ^@ in screen and I cannot change it.

If that's the case, then bindkey in zsh is your only hope.

> stty erase '^H' or '^?' doesn't change bs at all. It's as if the key
> mapping at a lower level is screwed up.

zsh does have the capability to freeze the terminal settings:  make sure
you have "ttyctl -u" in effect.  "ttyctl" on its own will tell you what
the current state is.  If it reports "tty is not frozen" I think you've
run out of things you can do in the shell.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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