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Bug 65091

Summary:	emacs backspace should delete backwards in a tty
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	screen	Assignee:	Phil Copeland <copeland>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0	CC:	david.balazic, teg
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Description Jens Petersen 2002-05-17 08:21:53 UTC

Description of problem:
In an Emacs session in a tty, backspace should delete not put
in the help keymap.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emacs -q
2. Press Backspace


Actual Results:  C-h (Type ? for further options)-

Expected Results:  The character before point should have been deleted.

Additional info:
(normal-erase-is-backspace-mode) seems to fixes the problem.

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-07-11 16:36:39 UTC

That's already what I have happening.... no changes, "-q" used in gnome terminal
and console mode. Which tty are you thinking of?

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2002-07-12 07:14:46 UTC

Sorry, this is inside a screen session.

1. screen
2. emacs -nw -q
3. Backspace

Puts me into help mode.  Looks like it's a screen config bug?

1. SYSSCREENRC=/dev/null SCREENRC=/dev/null screen
2. emacs -nw -q
3. Backspace

works fine.

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2002-07-12 07:40:22 UTC

*** Bug 65090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2002-07-12 07:52:42 UTC

It seems to be because of

bindkey -d -k kb stuff "\010"

in "/etc/screenrc".  Could it be commented out?

Comment 5 Phil Copeland 2002-08-12 19:09:44 UTC

Fixed in current rawhide

Phil
=--=

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2002-08-14 10:52:31 UTC

Fix confirmed.  Thanks.

Comment 7 David Balažic 2004-06-18 11:40:16 UTC

Also see bug 11294 for reference on this problem.