Re: How backspace is broken in Debian
severity 20053 important
severity 18662 important
severity 6689 important
stop
(I'm changing the severity of those bugs as this is one of the
release goal for Debian 2.0).
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:35:32PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 01:46:38PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
>
> - libreadline apparently does some default keybindings wrong. For
> example, it gets the left/right keys using termcap/terminfo just
> fine, but it doesn't seem to get END and Delete necessarily working. The
> END problem is probably due to the new ncurses defining termcap mode "@7"
> as END, where I think it used a different key before.
See Bug#20053.
> - The rxvt terminfo entry is wrong, last I checked. It lists completely
> the wrong keys for home/end.
Bug#18662.
> - 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)
Bug#6689, Bug#15994.
> My complaint about /etc/inputrc is that it's re-implementing features that
> already exist, but have bugs in them. If someone would fix libreadline to
> understand @7 (and verify its correct interpretation of other keys) and fix
> terminfo to match what the terminal keys actually send, /etc/inputrc would
> be unnecessary. As it is, it's an ugly patch to the problem and doesn't fix
> it entirely.
>
> If someone doesn't fix this soon, I'll have to start patching readline and
> terminfo myself. Do we really want that? I don't :)
>
> Hmm, I wonder if the ncurses maintainer has put in my 'rxvt' terminfo fix
> yet.... nope, and no response either. See bug#18662 for some more details.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Avery
>
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Juan Cespedes
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