Re: Backspace, etc.

Giles Constant writes:

> 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',

Nope, my gnome-terminal configuration maps the backspace key to ASCII DEL.

And Cone expects to read KEY_BACKSPACE from curses, for the backspace 
action.

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