stty erase ^? doesn't work

I'm trying to use

Code:

stty erase "^?"

to change the behavior of the delete key.
Both Backspace and Del are working as backspace, and I find this quite annoying.
But, after executing stty as written above, I just get a backspace command that prints "^H" instead that "^h", and a del key that acts as backspace. If I use csh instead of bash, simply nothing happens. What can I do?

 

Bash, at the moment, but either on csh stty seems to not work.

 

stty doesn't work. Either bind. If I try to set something, the only thing I succeed in is corrupting backspace.

 

For csh, add bindkey ^[[3~ delete-char to .cshrc.

 

It doesn't work. My shell (bash, csh, whatever) refuses to bind anything else than ^H to delete key.

 

None. I'm using real ttys, I've not installed X.

 

Firstly, if you currently have multiple keys working as backspace, what makes you think setting another (or resetting one of the existing keys) will stop one or other from being backspace? Maybe it will, I dont have mutiple keys working as backspace to test against but not convinced.
Secondly, are you using the carrot key "^" when you enter the stty erase command? This needs to be entered not using the carrot key as you find it on they keyboard, but simply by pressing the backspace or whichever key you want. You may have to first type Ctrl+v then type the key you are after, Ctrl+v escapes special keys.
IE on one of my systems backspace is "^?", which is written in a terminal window if I first type Ctrl+v then backspace...

thanks Andy.

 

Even if I try to use ctrl-v, every tentative to set an alternative behavior to del key fails.

 

I've already done it, it just do nothing!
When I press backspace I expect that the character on the left of the cursor will be deleted, and the right one when I press Del. In both cases, the left char is the one to be deleted, even if I try to set other values for erase or erase2, the only results I managed to get are a corrupted backspace key and a delete key that works as before.
I don't know why, nobody of you have ever get this behavior before?

 

So, there's no way to change its behavior?

 

I've already tried it but it haven't worked for me. Thanks a lot to everybody for the patience