Bug 65091 – emacs backspace should delete backwards in a tty

Bug 65091 - emacs backspace should delete backwards in a tty

Summary:	emacs backspace should delete backwards in a tty

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	screen (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Phil Copeland
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Duplicates:	65090 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2002-05-17 04:21 EDT by Jens Petersen
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:42 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-07-12 10:26:27 EDT
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Description Jens Petersen 2002-05-17 04:21:53 EDT

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 12:36:39 EDT

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 03:14:46 EDT

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 03:40:22 EDT

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

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2002-07-12 03:52:42 EDT

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 15:09:44 EDT

Fixed in current rawhide

Phil
=--=

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2002-08-14 06:52:31 EDT

Fix confirmed.  Thanks.

Comment 7 David Balažic 2004-06-18 07:40:16 EDT

Also see bug 11294 for reference on this problem.

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