Re: [Mutt] #2952: <BackSpace> should use terminal settings

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, September 10 at 08:19 AM, quoth Mutt:
> I forgot to say: AFAIK, Mutt gets the string corresponding to the 
> BackSpace from the terminfo (via the curses). You should make sure 
> that these terminfo settings fit your terminal (unfortunately some 
> default configurations are buggy). }}}

Ahh, I understand. So, in other words, mutt ignores what the terminal 
is *actually* emitting (which it could find out) and assumes that it 
has not been configured in a non-default way.

I mean, xterm (and many other fancier terminals) can have the key that 
they emit configured dynamically.

This still seems like a bug to me: mutt should be doing something more 
useful than asking terminfo what the default backspace character for 
the $TERM is. Besides the fact that it can be configured to be 
non-default, as you say, some of these terminal definitions are a 
little buggy. There is a more reliable way to do it, so mutt should 
use that (imho).

~Kyle
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