[racket] Can't delete chars in racket's terminal interpreter

From: Neil Van Dyke (neil at neilvandyke.org)
Date: Tue Apr 23 12:23:38 EDT 2013

Ory Band wrote at 04/23/2013 12:14 PM:
>
> For example, when writing some chars and then hitting 'backspace', i 
> get this instead of the last char being deleted:
>
> > abcd^H
>
> I'm using iTerm2 terminal app on Mac OSX Mountain Lion.

Can you tell iTerm2 to send the Delete character when you press the 
Backspace key?

Alternatively, see whether you have an "stty" command, and change the 
"erase" character.

Or, if you can load the "readline" library for Racket, that might 
magically solve the problem.

Neil V.


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