Bug 161315
| Summary: | Emacs exhibits different delete key behaviour between linux tty and xterm | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Howells <dhowells> |
| Component: | emacs | Assignee: | Jens Petersen <petersen> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | ||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-09-30 02:12:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I have a feeling this is likely an upstream faq. Could you please try to ask about this upstream, eg on emacs-devel list or gnu.emacs.help? This is somewhat akin to the debates on C-h vs Backspace for emacs on the terminal, I think. Anyway assuming it is not a Fedora specific problem, then the change needs to be made upstream first. Does the same thing happen with cvs emacs? |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.0 (like Gecko) Description of problem: emacs -nw when run on the linux text tty shows the following key bindings: CTRL-d - C-d; delete-char CTRL-h - C-h; goes into help menu Backspace - DEL; backward-delete-char-untabify DEL - <deletechar>; delete-char emacs -nw when run under the "xterm" program shows the following key bindings: CTRL-d - C-d; delete-char CTRL-h - DEL; backward-delete-char-untabify Backspace - C-d; delete-char DEL - <deletechar>; delete-char I've checked with strace, and in both cases the same data is read by emacs for each type of keypress: 0x04; 0x08; 0x7f; and 0x1b 0x5b 0x33 0x7e. I've tried changing the TERM, DISPLAY and LANG variables, but to no effect. infocmp doesn't show any obvious differences between the xterm and linux terminal types, so I don't know what's determining the behaviour. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-21.4-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run emacs -nw on linux tty. 2. Type a character and press the backspace key. 3. Repeat on emacs -nw running on an xterm. Actual Results: On the linux tty the character entered is deleted, but on the xterm emacs complains about the cursor being at the end of the buffer. Expected Results: In both cases the character should be deleted. Additional info: The reason I'm raising this bug is that firstly the delete behaviour ought to be consistent; secondly, the backspace key usually deletes backwards and in the xterm case it doesn't; and thirdly this might affect programs other than emacs.