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d-i: Alt+Bksp in text field shouldn't quit to menu



Hi

I just booted from the full Sarge Beta 3 netinst CD and found the keys
doing something different than I expected.  I wasn't sure where to
report it, so I'm sending it to the list...

In the configure network phase, the Ethernet card was successfully
configured with a leased IP address from the DHCP server, then I was
asked to enter a hostname which defaulted to "debian".  When I pressed
Alternate+Backspace, rather than it deleting the previous word as Emacs
and Readline-based programs such as Bash would, I was dropped back to
the main install menu.

It's understandable if text fields don't fully support Emacs-like key
bindings, but ideally they shouldn't exit a screen.

-- 
Michael Wardle
michael@endbracket.net




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