I have ttyctl -f, not because I'm terribly clever, but because it came 
from a sample somewhere in a zsh distribution.

I do see that stty may not be the best solution in some cases, e.g., 
remote logins may need  ^?, while local logins may need ^h, or v.v.  To 
me it is better to detect the source and use stty.  The function 
solution to me is a bit too brittle.  You can make a reasonable argument 
for either solution.

Peter Stephenson wrote:

>Bart Schaefer wrote:
>  
>
>>That's a pretty cute trick, Peter.  I think it still runs into problems
>>with "ttyctl -f", though?
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, you'd need to unfreeze it before the stty to be sure.  I suspect
>most users haven't got the tty frozen.
>
>pws
>
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