Re: problem with backspace key in xterm-256color

[Marianne Promberger <marianne.promberger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/15/08 17:31, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Sunday, June 15 at 06:16 PM, quoth Marianne Promberger:

> > both with TERM=xterm and TERM=xterm-256color, pressing Ctrl-v 
> > backspace shows up as:
> >
> > ^?
> 
> Okay... (that's the same as \177)
> 
> >> If not, is your termcap perhaps different? Try these two commands:
> >> 
> >>      infocmp -1 -L xterm | grep key_backspace
> >
> >        key_backspace=\177,
> >
> >>      infocmp -1 -L xterm-256color | grep key_backspace
> >
> >       key_backspace=^H,
> 
> HUH! Interesting. You have a broken xterm termcap file. Where did it 
> come from?
> 

I have NO idea. :) 

I'm not going to figure this out now, works good enough for me.

Thanks again for your help, and the comprehensive info!

m.