Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 10462
Under X both Backspace and Delete produce the same keycode ^?
Last modified: 2016-10-18 22:57:11 EDT
I discovered this after upgrade form RH 6.1.92 to RH 6.2. Solaris system where I log in from my RedHat workstation has interrupt set to ^? and erase set to ^H. Since both Backspace and Delete produce now ^? code I left without erase button. I belive Backspace should produce ^H code for compatability with other systems.
When accessing at RH 6.2 machine from an X-server, the TAB works as DEL. Note, when accessing the host there is no problem with the TAB key. When accesing a 6.1 from an X-server, there is also no problem.
Generally the whole Backspace/Delete thing a mess. Editors are not correctly configured to have working Backspace/Delete under all circumstances (X, console, SSH etc.). RH 6.2 makes it even worse.
Anybody from RedHat looks at the bugs? Cares? Gives a sh? I personally found a workaround modifying terminfo entries. But you trying to sell distribution to people who don't have 5 years of Unix expirience.
*** Bug 10502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***we definitely care. We have adopted the debian keyboard guidelines (which the LSB will most likely standardize) for Red Hat Linux 6.2. I'm not sure why you are having problems with the tab key. This was not changed for 6.2 at all. The keys: F1-F4 Home/End PgUp/PgDown Backspace/Delete were modified to comply with the guidelines. All editors/shells shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.2 work with these bindings.
The only shell the delete key works with in redhat 6.2 is bash. Plus if you telnet somewhere delete doesn't work. Please bring back a key that sends DEL (0x7F), or let me know how to do the terminfo thing. Joe
Actually, I've notices that RedHat provided a solution to this problem in 6.2 Hardware compatibility list, in Appendix B article 27.1 Helping with Keyboard Bindings. I still believe, however, that Backspace and Delete must produce different sequences. I am not familiar how it is done in Debian, but I do not think that RedHat should adopt their choices either. There are already enough Debian clones out there :)
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin https://github.com/openshift/origin/commit/852f1feb8b10143417eff1363b4c02a289db6abc Merge pull request #11220 from jim-minter/issue10462 Merged by openshift-bot