Re: Unexpected behaviour of Backspace when binding ^H

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Mar 2020 20:05:58 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.general
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Hello Ciprian,

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Op 09-03-2020 om 17:09 schreef Ciprian Tomoiaga:
> I am binding ^H to `replace all`. This has the unexpected result that pressing
> Backspace(1) enters the replace menu. I know that on some terminals Backspace
> generates ^H, but if I use the shortcut for `Verbatim Input` and press Backspace,
> I get `^?`.

Ah!  Then in src/global.c you will want to search for APPLE,
and then delete the four lines of that #ifdef.

Does iTerm2 always produce ^? for Backspace?  Or is that a
setting that you chose?  Or did it change recently for both
iTerm2 and Terminal?

> (1) Since I switched to MacOS, Backspace and Delete have gotten a bit blurry in
> my mind. By Backspace I mean "kill to the left", a simple press on the
> poorly-named "delete" button.
> (2) as above. By Delete I mean "kill to the right", pressing `Fn+delete`.

(Correct.  Backspace kills toward the left, and Delete kills the
character at the cursor and pulls the line in from the right.)

Benno

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