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From: Bliksem R Tobey <bt2a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: xmodmap, and various  questions.
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 00:44:38 -0500
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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This might not be the right board, but here's my problem:

I am rnning my system in FreeBSD.  I put XFree86 onto it and have been
trying to config it for the past couple days.  One thing that I can't
quite fix completely is my backspace key in xwindows.  It originally
gave me ^H symbols when I used backspace.  I used xmodmap to partially
fix the problem.  What I mean is that it now will delete the character,
but it still prints out a ^H or a ^? character on the command line.  Is
there a way to get it to delete the character and visually backup at the
same time?  I then took out the xmodmap from .xinit and put a line in
.Xresources that looks like this (they do the same thing I think):
	XTerm*ttyModes: intr ^c erase^H kill ^u
One other problem that I have lies oth in xwindows and in the normal os
mode.  I would like to be able to scroll through my history of commands,
or at least gepeat the last command with the up arrow key.  I haven't
found where to start with that problem.  If anyone has any info, I would
appreciate it if they could post a reply or e-mail me.  Thanks.

bliksem