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



On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

Thus, when another key is pressed that happens to emit ^H,
mutt presumes that the BackSpace key was pressed.

Yes, Mutt (in fact, the curses library) cannot make the difference
(well, AFAIK, some libraries could support a maximum delay between
the characters, but this can lead to problems on slow SSH connections,
even ADSL).

^H is one character (even with X forwarding ;-)

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