NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/mail/elm/2225

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!dwolfe
From: [e-mail] (Dave Wolfe)
Subject: Re: trouble backspacing using "s" save command ???
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:11:27 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
Keywords: elm
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>when i use the s (save) command and make a type i can't backspace
>over what i typed - is there a way around this? i guess ^c might do
>it

Elm uses tty cooked mode for multi-character input, such as the save
destination (as opposed to raw mode for single-character input such as
commands from the menu screen).  For such input, the tty settings elm
is running under count because all input editing is done by the system
and not by elm.  Depending on how you're starting elm, the default tty
settings may not be what you're expecting, e.g. the erase character may
default to DEL rather than ^H.  For instance, I encountered this
problem when a user had his stty settings in his .login file but was
starting elm in a manner which didn't process his .login and didn't
inherit his current settings.

Examine where your stty/tputs customization occurs and whether or not
it's getting executed by the method you start elm when you experience
this problem.  Sorry I can't give you a cookbook answer on how to fix
it, but there's too little information about your environment for all
the variables to this problem.

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