Re: backspace-delete problem

[Matthijs Melchior <mmelchior xs4all nl>]

Tom wrote:

>--- Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:
>
>>It interacts with the "swap backspace/delete" option
>>somehow. If you try all four possible combinations
>>you might get what you want...
>>
>
>No such luck. The "Delete generates DEL/^H" doesn't
>seem to do anything with "Swap Delete/Backspace"
>unchecked. Both keys send Backspaces.
>

Yes, this has been a bug in the Debian version of libzvt2....
The current version, 1.4.1.2-6, has this resolved.

>
>>I have "Swap delete/backspace" checked and "delete
>>generates del/^h" unchecked, and I get DEL for
>>backspace and ^[[3~ for delete.  This is the Right
>>Thing as documented at
>>http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s10.8
>>which is sort of the de facto Linux standard anyhow.
>>
>
>I don't care what Debian does. I need the Backspace
>key to send a Backspace (^H) (easy to do, but I can't
>seem to get the Delete key to send a Delete).
>
>>I started a flamewar about the dumbness of these
>>options and the UI for them at the time they were
>>added. ;-) A possible UI improvement might be:
>>
>>
>> -- Terminal workarounds -----------------
>> |                         ESC [3~
>> |  Backspace key sends:  [ASCII DEL]
>> |                         ^H
>> |                         ASCII DEL
>> |  Delete key sends:     [ESC [3~  ]
>> |                         ^H
>>
>
>That seems much clearer than the present situation. Of
>course, you still have to get it to work. :)
>
>Tom
>

Yes, I would appreciate the above UI better than what we have now!!


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