Bug 83139

Summary: fix comment in /etc/screenrc
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: David Balažic <david.balazic>
Component: screenAssignee: Lon Hohberger <lhh>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description David Balažic 2003-01-30 18:14:30 UTC 
Description of problem:

the file /etc/screenrc contain the following :

# This makes screen treat backspaces '^?' as
# deletes. There should be a fix in the code
# for the way termcap inheritance works,
# but I dont know where to put it, and this works.
bindkey -d -k kb stuff "\010"

That comment is mostly inaccurate. I recommend replacing it with :

# This makes screen convert backspaces to ^H,
# as it is documented to do ( see man screen ),
# but it doesn't. There should be a fix in the code
# where code translation works, but I dont know where
# to put it, and this works.
bindkey -d -k kb stuff "\010"



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
screen-3.9.13-2
Comment 1 Lon Hohberger 2003-04-16 13:52:51 UTC 
Comment changed.  New version of screen, 3.9.15, will be in rawhide soon.

Until then:

http://people.redhat.com/lhh/screen-3.9.15-1.i386.rpm
http://people.redhat.com/lhh/screen-3.9.15-1.src.rpm