On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 05:58:49PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org> writes: > > > gnome-terminal in gnome-core 1.0.7 has some snotty comments about > > maintainers setting the TERM type to xterm-color/xterm-debian. I've > > left it as "xterm" to be safe atm- mutt still comes up in colour... > > Um, I think Debian Policy overrides snotty comments. :-) I was hoping that there was a good reason for requiring TERM=xterm, and I seemed to remember that it was the change to use xterm-debian that broke the delete/backspace thing. I could be wrong there. > I think this is technically a bug (see the X Strike Force page at > http://www.debian.org/~branden for details on why it violates policy). I've read the page briefly before, although I could do with a memory refresh... hm, perhaps looking to see just how the terminal characteristics differ would be a good plan too. SRH -- Steve Haslam, Validation Engineer, ARM Ltd, Cambridge UK +44-1223-400677 steve.haslam@arm.com This .sig censored for your emailing pleasure.
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