(hiro) /home/matt> sudo emerge search tcsh Searching... [ Results for search key : tcsh ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * app-shells/tcsh Latest version available: 6.12-r3 Latest version installed: 6.12-r3 Size of downloaded files: 804 kB Homepage: http://www.tcsh.org/ Description: Enhanced version of the Berkeley C shell (csh) License: BSD If you open an xterm, then run stty, it says: speed 38400 baud; line = 0; erase = ^H; -brkint -imaxbel Therefore, backspace does what you would expect. However, if you ssh in to the machine, then run stty, you get: speed 38400 baud; line = 0; I presume that the fact that an xterm does a stty itself (or something), but ssh doesn't is why it works on the xterm and not through ssh. If you remove the following line: if ( -x "`which stty`" ) stty sane cr0 pass8 dec (line 19 from csh.login) all is well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. (hiro) /home/matt> sudo emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1133MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mo zilla/defaults/pref:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.2/share/config:/usr/share/ texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /us r/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf /xdvi/:/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu x/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib aim alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups directfb dvd dvdr emacs encode esd ethereal evo flac foomaticdb gb gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib jabber jack java jikes jpeg kde la dccalcms ldap lesstif libg++ libwww mad mcal mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi m sn mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl p lotutils png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode usb videos wmf wxwindows x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv yahoo zlib"
a quick test with 6.13 seems to fix it for me ... but i dont use tcsh normally so please re-open if it doesnt resolve it for you
