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Description of problem: ìë íì¸ì. Occasionally, while using hanterm, I have trouble backspacing. I've identified the problem. For xterm, red hat has been diligent in establishing ^? as the sequence generated by the backspace key. However, in hanterm, typing ^V (to tell the shell you want the literal character) followed by the backspace key reveals that it is sending ^H. I could, of course, manually use stty to tell the terminal that ^H is the backspace sequence. This is clearly the wrong solution. Since both (correctly) use a term type of xterm, there's no way for a .bashrc file to differentiate between an xterm and a hanterm, so there's no way to automate this process. Regardless, hanterm should be consistent with the rest of Red Hat's terminal programs, and emit ^? when backspace is pressed. $ echo $TERM xterm $ stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke $ rpm -q hanterm-xf hanterm-xf-2.0.5-5.8.0 $ ^H The last is where I typed ctrl-V backspace. Since hanterm is using xterm as the TERM type, I conclude this is not an error in the terminfo entry, since for actual xterms it works fine. It must be something in the code... Nowadays, many apps seem to assume that both ^H and ^? are backspace, so this is only a problem occasionally. But when it manifests, it's painfully annoying, as it becomes literally impossible to backspace. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hanterm-xf-2.0.5-5.8.0 How reproducible: Always WRT reproducability, I mean that backspace generates ^H every time, which it should not. As mentioned, that it does that is only sometimes a problem. Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description. Expected Results: backspace should generate ^? Additional info:
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