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

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#2952: <BackSpace> should use terminal settings

Comment (by Vincent Lefevre):

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