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backspace and delete



Hi all

I'm trying to make terminal apps behave the same under all the terminal
emulations I use. I run into the backspace-delete problem.

Naturally I turned to the Backspace-Delete HOWTO
http://www.docs.cs.huji.ac.il/LDP/HOWTO/mini/BackspaceDelete

However, it left me even more confused.

Generally it means that terminal apps should treat a keycode of Backspace
as Delete and vice-versa . No good reason is given .

I see that the debain policy requires the same:

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s10.8

I've tried following that, and got into a mess. For instance, if I run
less, then pressing Backspace simply prints '^H', and pressing Delete
deletes backwards .

Is there any good reason for this mess? Can anybody recommend a better
source of information?

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir


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