SUMMARY: Strange behavior of @

Thanks to Carsten B. Knudsen, Casper Dik, Lieven Marchand, Jacob Ritorto.

SOLUTION:

This is the original default behaviour on many (most System V based)
Unix versions, where "@" is the line kill character. On BSDs, Linux and
most other recent systems, line kill is bound to ctrl-U by default. It
can be changed with

stty kill "^U" (this is either [ctrl-U] or [caret followed by U])

or from X-session (e.g. dtterm):

dtterm -tm "kill ^u" &

ORIGINAL POSTING:

> In some applications typing @ (Shift +2) causes deleting all to beginning
> of the line (elm, ssh) - so it is not possible to write e-mail address or
> password containg character @.

Ladislav Kostal