Re: Bug#11569: ncurses-term: backspace does not work after upgrade
Joey Hess wrote:
>
> 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?
Ah, but that's the problem--I'm not entirely sure. I checked the
changes ESR made, and the important one here is that the default xterm
entry now derives from what ships with XF86 3.3, rather than 3.2. I'm
still looking into this.
> 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. :-(
This bothers me, yes. If enough people object, I'll package a new
ncurses which reverts to the old terminfo entries. But later ncurses
packages will certainly use the new version; we have to deal with this
eventually.
> 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.
Perhaps. But in light of this, it might need updating.
--Galen
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