Using emacs in a terminal window

[Fredrik Staxeng]

Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:

>    - xterm: Invoke xterm with -xrm *backarrowKey:false or put
>      'XTerm*backarrowKey: false' in your .Xdefaults file.  Once xterm
>      is started, give the command 'stty erase ^?'.  (These
>      suggestions are only relevant if you invoke emacs with the -nw
>      option in an xterm window or if you have not installed
>      emacs-X11.)

I have used the following for a long time:

XTerm*vt100.translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^? intr ^C

I also have "stty erase ^?" in .bashrc


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