Re: Re: Backspace, etc.

Giles Constant <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.cone
Organization Cable and Wireless
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:46, Giles Constant wrote:
> >
> > On this linux distribution, the standard behavior works correctly with
> > Cone.
>
> great..  clearly it's not a problem.
>
> On this distribution, everything except cone works.

It wouldn't have anything to do with this small snippet of code would it?  

From mycurses.H:

  // Generic encapsulation of keyboard input.  Keyboard input is either
  // a key, wchar_t, or a special function key, like a cursor key.
  // Rather than pull in all the baggage of curses.h, just to get
  // the key definition, we define our own constants.  Which also
  // makes it possible to define magic keys that are not defined by
  // curses.h

Again, the DEL keysym and the BS keysym can translate to very different 
behavior, depending on the terminfo database.  Incidentally, Eterm describes 
the process in this FAQ: http://www.eterm.org/docs/faq/, and goes on to point 
out that it has its own terminfo entry, so cone *should* work with Eterm if 
it is using terminfo properly, just as all my other programs do.  Clearly, 
something is wrong.  If cone works on your terminal, it's because you have 
your backspace key mapped to '^H', which may be fine for you, but it screws 
up a whole load of other programs.  Ctrl-H is 'help' in loads of programs.

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