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 ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net