Re: Bug#11569: ncurses-term: backspace does not work after upgrade
Galen Hazelwood wrote:
> Sounds like a reasonable idea to me...I think your fixes are interfering
> with ncurses's workaround. :)
By gosh, I think you're right!
I did: xrdb -remove; xterm -e pico
Backspace worked. Delete worked.
Ok, can you give me some idea of what workaround you've added to ncurses
here? What key is delete supposed to be, what key is backspace supposed to
be?
The problem with your changes is that if I clear out my xresources settings,
other programs that don't use curses, like mutt, now have troubles with
backspace and delete. Also, I had a complaint from a remote user who ssh's
in that backspace wasn't working in pine - but it turns out they have the same
xresources set that I had. I can't very well tell them to turn off their
xresources when logging in here, can I? So what I'm saying is that meaning
well, you've made a change that breaks everything that used to work. :-(
> Seriously, I'm going to take a closer look at exactly WTH xterm is
> doing, and what the terminfo entry wants to happen. I need to get in
> touch with the people working on keyboard configuration, so I can tailor
> ncurses to match.
As I've said before on this subject: people should simply read and follow
the keyboard setup mini howto (/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Key-Setup.gz). I've been
using the procedure it explains for years, and it works.
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