Re: How backspace is broken in Debian
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> - Standard xterm doesn't conform to official Debian keyboard policy, which
> is to use ^? to backspace and ESC[3~ for DEL. The 'xterm' terminfo entry
> refers to the original xterm non-Debian policy (I think), which may or
> may not be the same as implemented by the new Debian X packages (I'm not
> sure). The correct solution: implement the Debian keyboard policy into
> our xterm, perhaps using X resources, and then adjust the terminfo entry
> to match. It may be most polite to change the TERM variable in that case
> to something like xterm-debian, since we are no longer really xterm
> compliant. (which is IMHO a good thing, since the default xterm key
> bindings are stupid)
>
This reminds me that in bo, xterm by default uses as TERM variable
'xterm', and the termcap does not have colors. To have color I used a
resource that makes xterm export TERM with another value like
'xterm-color', the other way is to replace 'xterm' termcap with
'xterm-color' termcap(IMHO is ugly).
Bye
Carlos Barros.
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