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



On 2007-09-10 09:53:13 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> But let's phrase this another way: what do you expect a user to do whose 
> TERM entry is wrong? Edit the terminfo files? Figure out how to configure 
> their terminal to match the broken terminfo files? Use stty to change the 
> terminal settings to match the terminal? All of these are valid options, 
> and *should* all work (and DO all work with most other terminal 
> applications, such as vim, emacs, libreadline, etc.), but only the first 
> two work with mutt. That seems broken to me.

But remember that in Mutt, the backspace key is not used in the editor
only, but also in the index, the pager and so on. And what if some user
prefers to use the delete key as erase?

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