Re: Backspace/Delete Issues?

[Aaron Davies]

On 5/12/06, Alain Bench <address@hidden> wrote:
>  On Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 11:44:24 -0400, Aaron Davies wrote:
>
> > On 5/11/06, Alain Bench <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>| $ infocmp -1 | grep kbs
> >>|     kbs=^H,
> > Nope, I get \177
>
>     Good. It's the good kbs value, describing PuTTY's default config
> Terminal -> Keyboard -> Backspace: Control-? (127). So all directly
> running apps are correctly informed about what the key sends, and they
> do work. Screen itself also could need this information.
>
>     But still Screen's prompt fails, and apps running inside Screen
> fail. For some reason Screen does not seem to translate the key code
> between the real terminal and apps for the [backspace] key, as it does
> for other keys as say [F1]. I don't know why. And I'm not sure what
> would be the best solution.
>
>     What about trying a specialized "screen.putty" terminfo overriding
> "screen"s fixed idea of backspace? Do "tic -x screen.putty.src" as
> simple user, verify TERM=putty, start Screen, and verify it
> automatically exported TERM=screen.putty (otherwise screenrc
> interferes). Does the [backspace] key work in apps?

Sorry, does nothing. BTW, TERM is xterm by default, but I ran screen
as "TERM=screen screen", it had TERM=screen.putty inside, and
backspace behaved as my last case above--it was completely ignored by
screen and registered as ^H by other things. (One good test is
searching in less--less a file, do a "/" search, and try to backspace
on the search string.)
--
Aaron Davies
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