Re: screen BS/DEL debian policy conformance

[Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 04:53:39PM +0200, Peter Kundrat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some time ago there was a discussion about correct handling of BS and DEL 
> keys and apps that need to be fixed. screen is/was one of those, that changed
> the BS/DEL behaviour. screen windows generate ^H on BS. The version i checked
> was 3.7.4-6.

	screen follows policy since version 3.7.4-3:

> tail -3 /etc/screenrc

# On Debian GNU/Linux, `<--' (Backspace key) should send char `\177':
bindkey -k kb stuff "\177"
> dpkg -s screen
Package: screen
	...
Version: 3.7.4-6
	...
Conffiles:
 /etc/screenrc b69da5df1ee3b4b100985a45aa3e6986
	...
> md5sum /etc/screenrc
b69da5df1ee3b4b100985a45aa3e6986  /etc/screenrc

	The terminfo entry for 'screen' was also changed to make bs=\177.

-- 
Juan Cespedes