Re: Backspace problems in XTerm
* Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-09-06 11:08 -0600]:
> On Thursday, September 6 at 09:54 PM, quoth Kumar Appaiah:
> >1. Everything's fine, except that in the pager, if I press backspace,
> >it says key not bound. If I press Ctrl+H, it works as expected.
>
> Okay... all that means is that (probably) your backspace key isn't
> emitting a ^H but is instead emitting a ^?. Some terminals do one
> while some do the other. Xterm is convenient in that its easy to tell
> it which one to emit. You can verify this by, in the shell (or
> anywhere else) typing control-V and then pressing the backspace key.
Or by using <what-key> in mutt. AFAIK this is not bound by default,
but you can call it via
:exec what-key
in the index.
Nicolas
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