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



#2952: <BackSpace> should use terminal settings

Comment (by Vincent Lefevre):

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 On 2007-09-10 09:24:34 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
 > 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.

 Conversely, you can't be sure that what the user (or something else)
 has configured for erase is really the backspace key.

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

 xterm can change other keys dynamically. The only way to get all these
 right is to change the value of $TERM.

 > 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).

 I don't think this is really a bug (for the above reasons). But if
 this is possible, Mutt should probably add an option allowing the
 user to choose the erase character for backspace.
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2952#comment:>