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xterm, xterm-256color terminfo disagree wrt backspace

Bug #699889 reported by Todd Lewis on 2011-01-07

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ncurses (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

On my Ubuntu 10.04.1 laptop,

infocmp -f -L -d xterm xterm-256color

shows (among other differences) that "key_backspace" is '\177' on xterm but '^H' on xterm-256color. This causes some programs to misbehave when TERM=xterm-256color. (The same command on Fedora 13 shows no such difference btw.)

Revision history for this message

Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote on 2011-01-07: Re: [Bug 699889] [NEW] xterm, xterm-256color terminfo disagree wrt backspace

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Todd Lewis wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> On my Ubuntu 10.04.1 laptop,
>
> infocmp -f -L -d xterm xterm-256color
>
> shows (among other differences) that "key_backspace" is '\177' on xterm
> but '^H' on xterm-256color. This causes some programs to misbehave when
> TERM=xterm-256color. (The same command on Fedora 13 shows no such
> difference btw.)

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