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Re: Call for testing: Fix for DELETE / BACKSPACE problems in experimental



2011/10/30 Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>:
> 2011/10/30 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>:
>> Seems to work fine, although I haven't tested what happens when you
>> connect to non-Debian systems which have kbs=^H in the xterm terminfo.
>
> Connecting to FreeBSD works (FreeBSD has kbs=^H, but its userland-side
> of this is more tollerant and accepts 0x7F as well).
>
> I don't know about others. Anyone can check?

Btw, if breakage is to be expected, shouldn't we avoid TERM=xterm and
use TERM=xterm-debian instead?

The only problem I can see is that xterm-debian is not in upstream
ncurses, but I guess this can be fixed.

Or am I missing something?

-- 
Robert Millan


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